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Crime and Punishment in Puritan Society. The Puritans were a deeply religious group of people who tried to establish a colony that would represent a proper ...
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Two Puritan members of the Council, ... in contrast to the poorly paid clergy of the Southern colonies, the salary was handsome indeed. Out of it the minister could maintain several slaves or indentured servants and amass ... Moreover, the menace of excommunication was redoubled by the threat of corollary secular punishment.
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Those ruling groups still held to the spiritual explanations of crime, so that crime was seen as resulting from the fall from an original state of grace and as manifesting the work of the devil. For example, this spiritual and religious thinking about crime and punishment appeared in the Puritan colony on Massachusetts Bay.
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They had a strict moral code and violators were handed bizarre punishments. In most of the colonies it was against the law to swear, ... Blasphemy was a crime, which warranted harsh punishment. At the courts discretion blasphemers could be whipped, put in the pillory, have his tongue bored out with a hot iron or be forced...
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But common threads can be traced, and laws concerning religion, as well as the severity of punishments, are as good a place to start as any. In the Puritan north a religious message leaps out from almost every page of the early criminal codes. In Crime and Punishment in American History, Friedman writes:
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included in collection: Early settlers of New England; Puritan Family of Early New England; The Town Crier (Massachusetts). The Mayflower II (building a replica), The Scarlet Letter ... Crime and Punishment in the Massachusetts Colonies...
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PURITAN BACKGOUND - SECTION FIVE ... Nor was the 17th century approach to crime and punishment far removed the medieval. But one advance made in the New ... The Commandment "Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother" was taken so seriously that it was in some colonies a capital crime for a child over 16 to strike or curse his parent.
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Crime and Punishment in a Triangular Perspective: ... The judicial machinery in all the Puritan colonies followed a similar pattern in their nature as well as in their evolution.
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3. Theory and Practice: Beyond the Laws, the Actual Treatment of Crime. ... That this incoherence can be found in the Modell of Christian Charity, one of the most seminal texts of the New English movement, reveals how the Puritan effort toward the New Jerusalem was doomed from the start.
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