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Crime and Punishment, Medievil England 1000-1500, Whitechapel - Coggle…

- - - - Was not seen as fair by the Anglo-Saxons
  - - - A social crime - Represents a conscious challenge to a prevailing social order and its values
      - Many people lived together collectively farming land so the population turned a blind eye to poaching as it was considered acceptable to survive in this period
      - Poaching - The illegal shooting, trapping, taking of gain fish or plants from private property or from a place where such practices are specially reserved or forbidden
    - - Crimes against the person would include insulting your friend or neighbour or something as serious as murder
- - - - They did this to protect themselves and exert their authority over the area
    - - They claimed that all forest land belonged to the King and therefore trees could no longer be cut down for fuel
      - Those living in the forest were not allowed to own dogs or use bow and arrows
      - Many normal people ignored this new law as they were happy to break the law in order to survive
- - - - Often offenders would find themselves with either their head and hands or their ankles clamped between two pieces of wood
      - This punishment would take place in public with the idea being to humiliate offenders and ultimately deter others from committing crimes
- - - - Disgusting
    - - Dark
    - - Rookeries
        
        Dirty
        
        Disease
        
        Crime
        
        Sanitation was poor
        
        7 apartments with up to 30 people in one apartment
        
        Acomidated 757 in 1877
      - Lodging houses
        
        An alternative for rookeries
        
        8 hour sleeping shifts a day
        
        Smelt awful
      - Peabody estate
        
        In 1875 older houses were replaced by 11 new blocks of flats
        
        15p a room
      - Work houses
        
        Offered food and shelter for those too poor
        
        Conditions were made to be worse
        
        It was a last resort
        
        Had to work
      - Orphanage
        
        First orphanage opened in 1870
        
        By 1905 there were over 100
  - - - Smog
  - - - Resulted in people doing drugs and drinking alcohol to escape their lives
- - - - Why they were disliked
    - - Why they were disliked
    - - Caused more fights
  - - - They are known for bad things such as bombings
- - - - The victorians believed that poverty was your responsibility to stay out of it
      - Useful because it told us the areas of Whitechapel which are poor
      - Also useful because Charles was a social reformer and wanted to solve the poverty issue