刑事司法编年史（CriminalJusticeTimeline）.docVIP

/studenthelp/links/justice_timeline.htm Criminal Justice Timeline ? ? ? Ancient Times 1000s 1100s 1200s 1300s ? 1400s 1500s 1600s 1700s 1800s 1900s ? Hammurabi’s Code ? ? Ancient Times ? ? ? 1750 B.C. (circa) Babylonia Hammurabi’s Code written, detailing at least 282 laws which describe regulations for legal procedure, fixing rates for services, property rights, personal injury, and penalties for false testimony and accusations. ? ? ? 1000s 1000 (circa) Quintilian, an attorney in the Roman courts, showed that bloody palm prints were meant to frame a blind man of his mothers murder. ? 1087 England King William ordered details of the populace, lands and holdings throughout the land to be collected together, these form what we now know as the Domesday Book. ? 1100s 1100s England Establishment of Coroners Office ? 1200s 1215 England Writing of the Magna Carta 1248 China A Chinese book describes how to distinguish drowning due to strangulation. This was the first recorded application of medical knowledge to the solution of crime. 1253 England Parish constables start patrolling select areas, drawing their salary from the residents of the area they patrol. ? 1300s 1368 England Justices of the Peace established by statute. ? 1400s 1475 (circa) England Invention of the muzzle-loading musket. ? 1500s 1539 England First criminal court established at Old Bailey 1543 Italy Andreas Vesalius defines the science of anatomy by publishing De Humani Corporis Fabrica, seven volumes on the structure of the human body 1554 (circa) France Ambrose Pare conducted official autopsies and sought to describe how gun shot wounds were inflicted. In particular, he wrote a treatise that explained that gunshot wounds were not in themselves poisonous. 1590 Holland Invention of compound microscope by Z Janssen ? 1600s ? ? ? ? ? ? 1700s 1718 England Machine gun invented by James Puckle 1748 England Henry Fielding is appointed magistrate and establishes the Bow