Summary:
The series: SHP Smarter History is the new approach to GCSE from the Schools History Project. It offers interesting lessons and comprehensive content plus step by step coaching in exam skills – using SHP’s Exam Buster approach. This is the best of both worlds from the experts who know what good teaching is about and also know what the SHP specifications are all about.

SHP OCR Crime and Punishment is a new course book for students taking the OCR Crime development study. It covers all the relevant requirements of the OCR specification but delivers them in the context of a motivating, enquiry-led approach to ensure that your courses are interesting and motivating to teach yet still deliver good results for your students.

OCR Crime and Punishment
The textbook covers all the relevant requirements of the Development Study and all the British Source Investigation topics for OCR.

Features
- an enquiry-based approach – varied pace and style of learning which is essential to keep your students motivated over a long period
- Exam Busters – practical exam preparation techniques that have been trialled in real schools with real pupils
- written by experienced teachers rather than remote examiners, who know how to keep pupils motivated.

Support
- online teacher's material including lesson plans and worksheets and Dynamic Learning digital resources
- SHP training programme – a national conference plus regional inset – to support you as you introduce this course in your school.

• An authoritative new Crime and Punishment development study from SHP preparing candidates for exam success in OCR's 2009 SHP Specification
• Created by teachers and trialled in real schools working with SHP the leading curriculum development body
• Blends exam preparation with worthwhile historical investigation
• 'Smarter Revision' helps students use thinking skills techniques to improve their revision and so improve their grade
• 'Meet the Examiner' unpacks what the examination questions are looking for and shows how they can improve their answers
• Supported by Dynamic Learning resources and lessons for the whiteboard or the school network/VLE

Table of Contents:
Section 1 Introduction
How much do you know about crime and punishment today?
Why are you studying crime and punishment through time?
Smarter Revision: Using a Factor Chart to record why things changed
The Big Story of Crime and Punishment through time
Section 2 Crime and Punishment in the Roman Empire
Criminal moments in time: Roman Canterbury AD250
How did the Romans try to prevent crime?
Smarter Revision: Using Memory Maps to record key features of a period
Meet the Examiner: decoding exam questions and tackling ‘describe’ questions
Section 3 How much did Crime and Punishment change in the Middle Ages?
Criminal moments in time: Saxon village AD650
Big Story: How much change was there between 500 and 1500?
Was justice in the Middle Ages bloody and thoughtless?
Smarter Revision: Revision cards to help you recall knowledge
Meet the examiner: Understanding sources
Did William totally change Saxon justice?
Smarter revision: Revision cards to help you remember what changed and when
Meet the examiner: writing effective explanations of change
What can the legend of Robin Hood tell us about Medieval crime and punishment?
How far did justice change in the later Middle Ages?
Meet the examiner: evaluating change and continuity
Smarter revision: Using revision cards to help you reach well supported judgements
Section 4 The Early Modern Period
Criminal moments in time: Portsmouth 1732
The Big Story: why did punishments become so harsh in the Early Modern Period?
Meet the examiner: Using Key factors to explain change
Why were there so many ‘new’ crimes in the Early Modern Period? (Case- studies: Vagrancy, Witch-hunting, Highway robbery, Smuggling, Poaching)
Meet the Examiner: Source Investigation
Smarter revision: Concept map to show how factors are connected
Meet the examiner: Evaluating sources
Summary task: Why was the Bloody Code introduced?
Section 5 Crime & punishment, 1750-1900
Criminal moments in time: London 1845
The Big Story: Why was there a revolution in punishment & policing in the years 1750-1900?
How did crime change in Industrial Britain? And why?
How did punishment change in Industrial Britain? And why? (Case studies: Transportation; Prison reform)
Smarter Revision: Using the “Pendulum of punishment” to understand change.
Meet the examiner: Answering “Are you surprised by...? questions
Smarter Revision: Hunting Factors
Meet the Examiner: Answering factor questions
Why did it take so long for the British to accept the police?
Meet the examiner: Improve your time planning on Development Study Questions
Meet the Examiner: Tackling Iceberg Questions
Case study: The Peterloo massacre
Meet the Examiner: Cross-referencing sources
Case study: The Rebecca Riots
Section 6: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 1900 to the PRESENT
Is there anything new about 20th century crime?
What factors have caused change in crime and punishment in the 20th century?
How did the punishment pendulum swung after 1900?
How has society changed its attitude to young offenders?
How have attitudes changed to capital punishment?
Meet the Examiner – Reaching judgements on Interpretations
Case study: The Suffragettes
Section 7: Conclusion
Smarter revision review
Factors affecting changes in crime and punishment

About the Author(s):
Richard McFahn is Humanities Adviser in West Sussex and was formerly a Head of History in Hampshire

Chris Culpin was formerly Director of the Schools History Project; wrote the National Archives online exhbition on Crime and Punishment and is an experienced senior examiner with a major awarding body