Crime and punishment in Industrial Britain
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- INDUSTRIAL BRITAIN CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 1750-1900
- CRIMES
- 75% of reported crime was minor theft
- Smuggling
- 10% of crime involved violence
- Murder
- Peterloo protest
- PETERLOO (AUGUST 1819)
- 60,000 men, women and children at St Peter's field, Manchester
- Demand that working class men should be allowed to vote and to get lower food prices and unemployment
- PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION
- Banners and music, protestors wore their 'Sunday best' and led by HENRY HUNT
- FEAR OF REBELLION - government sent yeomanry, charged at protestors KILLING 11, INJURING 400
- Sent 12,000 additional troops to stop further rebellion, Hunt put on trial and given 2.5 yrs in prison
- Government passed THE SIX ACTS - public meetings over 50 banned, magistrates given power to search houses, sieze and destroy newspapers and publications
- 1yr - people stooped rebelling when food prices went down and unemployment decreased
- PUNISHMENTS
- PRISON
- TRANSPORTATION
- BLOODY CODE
- POLICING
- 1829 - POLICE FORCE INTRODUCED
- CRIMES
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