1750-1900

Question 1

What percentage of crime involved violence

Answer 1

10

Question 2

Why did criminals and victims increase

Answer 2

Increased population due to industrial cities

Question 3

why were industrial cities ideal for crime

Answer 3

No security, close quarters easy for pick pocketing etc

Question 4

What about the end of the war made crime levels increase

Answer 4

Soldiers came back with no money or job, but weapons

Question 5

3/4 offenders were…?

Answer 5

Male

Question 6

when did the bow street runners come about

Answer 6

1750s

Question 7

Who started the BSR

Answer 7

Sir John fielding

Question 8

Who started the metropolian police

Answer 8

Sir Robert peel

Question 9

When were the met police bought in

Answer 9

1829, when the bsr were struggling to cope alone

Question 10

the met police were the beginning of what

Answer 10

Modern policing

Question 11

Why did people move into cities

Answer 11

Changes in farming - less work and lower wages
Growing industrial towns-offering more factory jobs

Question 12

What was the derek Bentley case

Answer 12

The last person to be eexuctcted for murder of a police officer during a burglary , he did not fire a gun and had a mental age of 10, 1953, strong case of innocence

Question 14

By 1881, what percentage of people lived in towns and cities

Answer 14

68

Question 15

Why were pubs becoming a problem

Answer 15

Workers would get drunk which was a common social and criminal problem

Question 17

Why is it hard to be certain about crime rates

Answer 17

No national crime figure before 1805

Question 18

Time line of crime rate

Answer 18

1815-20 dramatic increase
1820-50 steady increase
1850-1900 gradual fall

Question 19

Murders usually occurred between strangers or people they knew?

Answer 19

Someone they knew

Question 20

one example of a train crime

Answer 20

Fare dodging

Question 21

One business related crime

Answer 21

Embezzlement

Question 22

What effect did the end of the Napolian war have

Answer 22

Industries began to lay of workers
Rising prices
People turned to theft

Question 23

How were the bow street runners formed

Answer 23

Magistrates of boy street court John and Henry fielding set up a group of part time constables to patrol London streets at night
By 1800 there were 68 men

Question 24

What did John fielding suggest in 1775

Answer 24

The expansion of the bow street runners to other parts of country, thought to be too expensive

Question 25

Why were people against the idea of a police force

Answer 25

Cost to the public Policing wasn’t part of the government role Limit freedom and privacy Might arm the police

Question 26

What was happening in 1829

Answer 26

Rapid growth of towns and cities meant the Constable and watchmen weren’t enough for the crime rate Protests about unemployment and food prices and voting rights.

Question 27

How was the metropolitan police force set up

Answer 27

Sir Robert peel won the support of parliament and got over 3000 paid men operating in a seven mile radius of london , nicknamed bobbies and peelers

Question 29

Were the met armed

Answer 29

They had a truncheon but that’s jt

Question 30

What law was passed in 1839 and what did it do

Answer 30

Rural con stability act allowed counties to set up own police forces, however only 2/3 did

Question 31

What law was passed in 1835 and what did it do

Answer 31

Towns could set up own police forces but had to be paid for through households money to the council . People were concerned about cost