Crime and Punishment in the Industrial Period

Question 1

Causes of Crime

Answer 1

Industrialisation
political change
population growth

Question 2

Types of crime

Answer 2

fraud 
smuggling 
poaching 
vandalism 
lots of theft
lots of violence 
rioting 
civil disobedience

Question 3

crime prevention

Answer 3

first investigative police force introduced
robert peels metropolitical police introduced
policing becoming centrally for the whole country

Question 4

punishments

Answer 4

execution only used for most extreme crimes
transportation used as a moderate measure
flogging used for minor crimes
punishments were used to deter criminals but then
prisons greatly improved and used to reform criminals