Crime and Punishment - Industrial 1750 - 1900

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  • Industrial 1750 - 1900
    • Crime
      • causes
        • harvest failure
        • people stole to survive
        • end of war
        • unemployment high
        • rising cost of bread
        • overpopulation of towns
      • Start linking to poverty and crime
        • Believe in Criminal type  (look like a criminal) e.g face and hands
        • criminal class - we inherit criminal tendencies
          • had a look about them
            • if parents people were bad, they believed they would be equally as bad
    • Law Enforcement
      • Bow Street runners
        • Located in London
          • Patrolled at night
            • people worried about an army at night
      • Robert Peel
        • 3000 paid constables
        • metropolitan police
        • 1829 - MET police
        • Police in towns
        • 1839 - police in rural areas
        • 1842 - detectives
        • 1878 - CID
        • 1880s - photos
        • 1897 - fingerprints
      • Reasons
        • wanted to prevent crime
          • presence on streets
        • prostitutes and drunks
  • more common crime = petty theft
    • serious = less common
    • Crime
      • causes
        • harvest failure
        • people stole to survive
        • end of war
        • unemployment high
        • rising cost of bread
        • overpopulation of towns
      • Start linking to poverty and crime
        • Believe in Criminal type  (look like a criminal) e.g face and hands
        • criminal class - we inherit criminal tendencies
          • had a look about them
            • if parents people were bad, they believed they would be equally as bad
  • silent system - Prisonersworked together but in silence
    • made to do the treadmill, crank and shot drill
    • prisons
      • 1823 - Gaols Act came in to make conditions better
      • John  Howard
        • reformers
      • Elizabeth Fry
        • reformers
      • Punishments
        • transportationto Australia
          • built roads and buildings
            • worked on plantations
              • sentenced for 7 or 14 years
          • began in 1787
            • worked on colonies
        • Industrial 1750 - 1900
          • Law Enforcement
            • Bow Street runners
              • Located in London
                • Patrolled at night
                  • people worried about an army at night
            • Robert Peel
              • 3000 paid constables
              • metropolitan police
              • 1829 - MET police
              • Police in towns
              • 1839 - police in rural areas
              • 1842 - detectives
              • 1878 - CID
              • 1880s - photos
              • 1897 - fingerprints
            • Reasons
              • wanted to prevent crime
                • presence on streets
              • prostitutes and drunks
  • separate system - had their own cell, only allowed out for church or exercise
    • many took their own life

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