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Between 1600 and 1800 the number of crimes punishable by death quadrupled whilst the number of execu Between 1600 and 1800, the number of recorded capital felonies in England augmented dramatically, whilst the proportion of executions dropped tremendously. How could these fluctuations and discrepancies in the law be accounted for? Why was there this pattern of punishment and what was the logic behind it? This are a multiplicity of factors which the modern criminologist must take into account, when studying the phenomenal rise in capital crimes during the early modern period. The whole concept of criminal activity is a dynamic and constantly changing one: each generation evaluates and reassesses what is considered to be socially acceptable behaviour, and what is perceived to be deviant activity. One such example is that in the early nineteenth century, many public misdeameanors against property, such as breaking and entering, setting fire to a haystack, and defacing...

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