Crime and Punishment: Industrial Period (1750-1900)
- Created by: ellielouise
- Created on: 05-04-21 17:38
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- Industrial Period (1750 - 1900)
- crime
- most / least common crimes
- petty theft was common
- violent crime was rare
- causes
- end of war meant men returned looking for jobs
- increasing poverty
- unemployment as there were fewer jobs than people
- harvest failures
- increasing cost of bread
- over population in towns
- opinions / class division
- criminal class
- if people's parents were criminals, they were more likely to be criminals
- inherited
- criminal type
- criminals had a certain look about them; ie hands, face etc
- began to make the link between poverty and crime
- criminal class
- 3/4 offenders were male
- see mindmap on crime 1750-1900
- most / least common crimes
- punishments
- transportation to Australia
- began in 1787
- sentences could be 7 years, 14 years or life
- work on colonies
- built roads, buildings etc
- see mindmap on transportation
- hanging
- new drop
- fell through a trap door
- long drop
- rope length calculated by height and weight to snap neck easily
- reduction in hangings
- took place behind prison walls
- new drop
- prisons
- reformers
- John Howard
- Elizabeth Fry
- see mindmap on reformers
- 1823 Gaol Act to improve conditions
- separate system
- silent system
- hard system
- reformers
- transportation to Australia
- law enforcement
- Bow Street runners
- located in London
- patrolled at night
- had a newspaper
- people worried about there being an army on the streets
- reasons
- preventing crime
- presence on streets
- drunks
- prostitutes
- Robert Peel
- Metropolitan police
- 3000 paid constables
- 1835; police in towns
- 1839; police in rural areas
- 1842; detectives
- 1878; CID
- 1880s; photographs
- 1897; fingerprints
- see mindmap on police
- Bow Street runners
- crime
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