Eduqas GCSE History · C100
Component 2
Revise: Early Punishments, Public Punishment and TransportationRestitution required an offender to give something back to those who had been wronged. The Saxons used wergild, compensation paid to a victim’s family. The amount depended on the victim’s social status, showing that people were not treated as equal before the law.
- Revise: Attitudes to Crime and Punishment
Making good the harm caused by an offence, for example by compensating a victim or repairing damage.