Crime & Punishment

Tony Robinson's Crime and Punishment TIME TEAM's Tony Robinson explores the history of our laws, where they came from and how they were enforced. From the fascinating to the inexplicable, this journey through the nation's criminal past sheds a surprising light on how we punish society's wrong-doers today. Tony Robinson goes on a fascinating and sometimes bizarre journey to discover the origins of our laws and what we do to people when they break them. From trials by boiling water, through the decapitation of a king, to the emergence of our modern democracy, it is a journey that starts two thousand years ago and remains unfinished today. We find out how the Normans created the first surveillance society, how today's compensation culture was started by the Anglo Saxons and how a man whose body was kept in a London cupboard inspired us to stop stringing up people and start locking them up instead