Crime and Punishment 1700-1900
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- Crime and Punishment 1700-1900
- Crimes
- Highway Robbery
- Reduced due to the construction of Banks and mounted patrols
- Increased because of an increase of trade and more travellers with money
- Smuggling
- Seen as a social crime because people benefitted from it
- Poaching
- Committed out of desperation rather than malice
- Seen as a social crime
- Highway Robbery
- Punishments
- Hangings
- Public hanging stopped
- Continued in private
- People found it entertaining so it was no longer effective
- Transportation
- Australia in stead of America
- Seen as inhumane
- Journeys were long and uncomfortable
- Influencers
- Robert Peel
- Reduced crimes punishable by death by 100
- Minor crimes punished more proportionately
- 1823 Gaols Act
- Elizabeth Fry
- Female workers watch over female/child inmates
- Organised education in Newgate
- Improves standard of living e.g. clothes, furniture
- Association for the Reformation of Female Prisoners
- John Howard
- Campaigns for the release of all prisoners regardless of whether they can pay the release fee
- Writes 'The State of Prisons in England and Wales'
- Wants clean food and ater, Christian teachings private cells and paid workers
- Robert Peel
- Prisons
- Seen by many as rehabilitation
- Hangings
- Control
- Constables
- Head Quarters in Scotland Yard
- standardised training
- centrally organised/answered to the home secretary
- weekly pay
- Relied on their presence as a deterrent
- Nightwatch men
- No uniform
- Supposed to catch criminals in the act
- Various services e.g. street cleaning
- Bow Street Runners
- Led to the formation of Police Corps
- 1856 Police Act made it compulsory for all towns to have a police force
- Criminal Investigations Department set up
- Evidence began to be used in court
- Led to the formation of Police Corps
- Constables
- Crimes
- Police
- Employed anyone
- Weren't very clean
- People were scared they were violent
- Open to corruption
- Bow Street Runners
- Led to the formation of Police Corps
- 1856 Police Act made it compulsory for all towns to have a police force
- Criminal Investigations Department set up
- Evidence began to be used in court
- Led to the formation of Police Corps
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