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crime and punishment and Whitechapel
local context
gangs were powerful
1000+ homeless
poverty was everywhere
30 000 population
pollution and poor sanotation including lack of clean and healthy water
protection rackets when gangs ask to protect business but with a pay and if they refuse the gang would attack
lack of jobs for women hence they turned to prostitution
people have to turn to crime to survive
1200 prostitute
45 pubs in Whitechapel so drunkness led to violence and addiction so people stole and crinme rates increased
fluctuating populatio,people slept in diffrent lodging houses each night
Pubs attracted diffrent people
lack of employement
housing and slumhouses
Rookeries,overcrowded
lodging houses (the worst hotel)
Work houses,no pay, overworking,harsh because the gov didnt want people to get lazy,lots of manual labor
sweated trades/workshops ,like carpentry,workd 20 hours a day but did get paid
economic depression
geroge Peebody built the p body estate to try to make better lodging houses they were better
Immigrants
irish people,empoyed as dockers,had a bad reputation for being drunk and sscoiated with terrorism
Jews,coming from Eastern Europe,the ysar of russia was allegedly killed by a jew,very poor,they are very poor and they were diffrent so they were discriminated
h division
police force
Were not liked because sometimes the protestors or people
white chapel vigilant committee
offered a financial reward wich the policee did not do,patrolled the street at night,did not necessarily help
competition between diffrent police forces,lack of complete clear communication
Charles warren, head of the met police
the media,exagerating some jack the ripper details,,were not trusted
met police set by robert peel in 1929 divided into divisions
cid set in 1878,criticed for the jack the ripper case,
Home Secretary,injudge of law and order
The beat,trying to deter people,had a specific route,criminals memorised the route
Medieval:1000-1500
early modern;1500-1700
Industrial;1700-1900,highway robbery,poaching 1723 black act,smuggling,cloth wine, leather,sugar,fielding brothers set up the bow street runners
1823 goals act
Modern;1900-present
laws crimes,crimes against the person,or authority
Law enforcement,comunity based or authority
Punishment,deterent,retritrubution,rehabilitation
forest laws made in the medieval times
Early modern’s main crime was heresy and treason ,vagabondage,increase in poverty,witchcraft