Summary:
An essential book for all candidates preparing for either OCR or Edexcel's Schools History Project specification at GCSE.

Part 1 provides advice from the experts on preparing to answer source-based questions on Crime and Punishment over time

Part 2 provides the source investigations - covering all the relevant nominated topics.

Part 3 helps candidates revise and review the content of the course focusing on the big ideas that help them improve their grade and which will help them with the knowledge based questions in Paper 1.

• Authoritative team who have been involved in teaching and examining SHP specifications for many years
• Engaging content which will intrigue and motivate lower achievers
• Exam advice and model answers pinpointed to the exact needs of both OCR and Edexcel examinations
• Free mark schemes for the source investigations downloadable from www.hoddersamplepages.co.uk

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Introduction
How to use historical sources
What kinds of questions will you get in the exam?
Part 2 Source investigations
THE MIDDLE AGES
1 Were the Middle Ages lawless?
2 What can Robin Hood tell us about outlaws?
EARLY MODERN AGE
3 Why was there a witch-hunting craze in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
4 Why were vagabonds treated so harshly in the sixteenth century?
5 The Gunpowder Plot: who were the criminals?
6 Were smugglers violent and dangerous?
7 Transportation: was it a soft punishment?
1750–1900
8 What was the truth about Sweeney Todd?
9 The Peterloo massacre: did the authorities overreact?
10 Were Peel’s Peelers respected?
11 The Rebecca Riots
12 Jack the Ripper: why was he never caught?
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
13 The suffragettes: why did the government treat them as criminals?
14 Conscientious objectors: what was their crime?
15 The General Strike, 1926: industrial protest or revolution?
THEMES AND FACTORS OVER TIME
16 Prisons across time
Part 3 Help with revision
REVISION CHARTS
Chronology
Different types of crime
Punishments through the ages
Preventing crime, catching and trying criminals
Factors

About the Author(s):
Colin Shephard and Rosemary Rees are both experienced and accomplished textbook authors and trainers. They are also senior examiners who are thoroughly familiar with OCR and Edexcel's Schools History Project specifications and their examination requirements.

Readership:
GCSE students