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Victorian England - Crime and Punishment (Group 3), Major Punishments -…
Victorian England - Crime and Punishment (Group 3)
Police force
Politician called Sir Robert Peel introduced first English police force.
Improve public order in England.
Next ten years, many other areas made their own police force
Poorly paid
They would patrol a certain area, known as their, 'beat'.
Carried truncheons and rattles to raise alarm
Not trusted
Over time, they proved that police reduced crime and so they became more popular and trusted
Victorian Metropolitan police force
Established in 1829
Headquarters in Scotland Yard
Only after 1839 did they get wide power
Power futher widened in 1869
Then allowed to raid dens like brothels
Punishment
Many criminals were sent to Australia for hard labour.
Hard labour was a common punishment.
prisons became the main form of punishment in this period.
Other forms of punishment included fines, hanging or being sent to join the army.
Prisons often made prisoners do pointless tasks such as turning a crank up to 10,000 times a day.
special youth prisons were introduced to deal with child offenders. These were called ‘Reformatory Schools’.
Most people who committed serious offences were hung
punishment
Death sentence
there were 5,000 reorded crimes per year in 18,00 to 20,000 year in the 1800s
it was really painful for those, who were women, anad children, becausee they had to be jummbped up with everyone, eating nothing, but a loaf of bread, those times, fod wasnt that much, they would usuallyy get a small amount.
there are children at the age of 12 who are usally hanged, young people were sent there for long sentences usually several year
Suicide
four types of punishment--retribution, deterrence, rehabilitation, and societal protection
In victorian times, hanging punishsment was one of the most severe punishment from all the punishments, because of how
Schools were set up for offenders under 16 years old. These were very tough places, with stiff discipline enforced by frequent beatings.
Hanging Punishment
Was the primary execution's form in many countries during the time
The hanging punishment was the most painful punishment during Victorian England
The last hanging execution in the UK took place in 1964
Victorians believed that being punished in jail can prevent criminals from commiting a crime in future.
Prisons at this time were often in old buildings, such as castles. They tended to be damp, unhealthy, insanitary and over-crowded. All kinds of prisoners were mixed in together such as men, women and children
Major Punishments