Nature of Crimes

Analyze how the nature of criminal activity has differed and changed over time.
Describe common crimes in the medieval era.
Explain the rise of vagrancy, heresy, and treason as crimes in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Analyze the growth of smuggling and highway robbery in the eighteenth century.
Assess the emergence of crimes connected with urbanisation in the nineteenth century.
Evaluate the impact of industrial and agrarian disorder during the Industrial Revolution.
Explain the growth of crimes in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries associated with motor cars, computers, hooliganism, and terrorism.

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