Crime And Punishment-Industrial

Question 1

What was the crime rate like from 1750-1900

Answer 1

1750-1800 gradual increase
Sharp rise 1815
Slowly rose until 1850
Gradual fall until 1900

Question 2

What was the most common crime that accounted for as much as 80%

Answer 2

Petty Theft

Question 3

Only ? of crimes involved violence

Answer 3

10%

Question 4

Britains population grew from 6million to ? from 1750-1900

Answer 4

37million

Question 5

People moved to the cities for ?

Answer 5

Work in the mills

Question 6

Name 8 reasons for the increase in crime

Answer 6

Population growth
Industry and trading goods
City growth-assaults 
Poor lodging houses-theft
Overcrowded streets-difficult to police 
Poverty
Returning soldiers from the Napoleonic war-less jobs in ammunition also 
High price of bread

Question 7

From 1815-1822 wages fell by ?

Answer 7

1/3

Question 8

Who was George Hudson?

Answer 8

In 1840 George Hudson (Railway King) swindled shareholders out of huge sums of money

Question 9

The growth of businesses created new opportunities for

Answer 9

White collar crime

Question 10

What did the enlightenment period mean for people?

Answer 10

Philosophers amd scientists began to discuss and change ideas of what it meant to be human.
Lead to human rights

Question 11

What did the British empire mean for Britain

Answer 11

Transportation

Question 12

In 1900 how much of the world did Britain own?

Answer 12

1/5

Question 13

What was the result of railways between cities

Answer 13

Improved transportation of goods and people.
Middle class men invested in trains and earned huge amounts of money

Question 14

When was the education act?

Answer 14

1870

Question 15

What did the education act mean for children?

Answer 15

Newspapers could be read
Children could be abused at school
Didnt have to work

Question 16

Until when could only 5% of people vote?

Answer 16

1832

Question 17

When could working class men vote?

Answer 17

1884

Question 18

What did an increase in alcohol consumption mean

Answer 18

More violence

Question 19

When were the Bow Street Runners introduced and what were they

Answer 19

1749

Part time constables of 63 men who patrolled the streets until midnight and formed the Bow street Patrol

Question 20

When was the metropolitan police created?
Who by?
How many in London?

Answer 20

1829
Robert Peel
3000 men

Question 21

Why did people oppose the Police

4points

Answer 21

The cost
Invasion of privacy
Wouldn’t work
Limit freedom

Question 22

Further laws lead to police?

Answer 22

Being introduced across the country

Question 23

What two things happened to trials

Answer 23

Lawyers began to act as prosecution and defendants

They became longer and more formal

Question 24

What were 4 continuities of law and order

Answer 24

Juries
JPs
Assizes
Petty sessions

Question 25

Name 3 continuities of punihsments

Answer 25

Fines Hanging Corporal punishments

Question 26

What were 6 changes in punishments in the industrial period

Answer 26

``` Transportation 1787 New drop- Late 1700 Fewer executions-start of 1800 End of public executions-1868 New drop-late 1800 Prisons became the most important form of punishment ```

Question 27

In the 1830s how many people were sent to Australia

Answer 27

5000

Question 28

When did Transportation end?

Answer 28

1868

Question 29

Why was there and end to public executions?

Answer 29

Rowdy events which could spark riots | Good place for theft

Question 30

What did the New Drop involve?

Answer 30

A more humane of way of execution The convict would be hung by falling through a trap door Say goodbye to family

Question 31

When was the goal act

Answer 31

1832

Question 32

What did the Gaol Act consist of?

Answer 32

JPs visiting Gaols and reporting conditions

Question 33

How did John Howard reform prisons?

Answer 33

Clean water | Own cells with bed or hammock

Question 34

How did Elizabeth Fry reform prisons?

Answer 34

Female wardens for female prisons | Small School

Question 35

What were two systems that were implace in prisons

Answer 35

Separate and silent

Question 36

Which system was it in which prisoners worker, prayed and reflected on their crime and only left there cell to go to the chapel and to exercise?

Answer 36

Seperate

Question 37

What was the silent system?

Answer 37

Prisoners worker together but in silence. The cells were the same as the separate system.

Question 38

What were the positives and negatives of the separate system?

Answer 38

Positive- everyone was in order so it was easy to control | Negative-mental breakdowns, suicide, despair

Question 39

What were the positives and negatives of the silent system?

Answer 39

Positives- no longer depressed because they were working together Negative- the work they did was pointless

Question 40

The separate system was effective because it was easy to manage, why was the silent better though?

Answer 40

Prisoners mental health improved so when they were released they weren't as negatively impacted

Question 41

Name 4 new crimes of the Industrial period

Answer 41

1. Faire-dodging and vandalism of new railways 2. stealing water from standpipes 3. failing to send children to school 4. corrupt bankers embezzling money

Question 42

Name 3 easy targets for robbers caused by economic and social change

Answer 42

Factories supplying goods Banks opening Middle class homes full of possession

Question 43

One view on crime was by 'radical thinkers' what was it? | Lack of?

Answer 43

The poor environment that many children grew up in was the main cause of crime. They placed emphasis on the lack of religion, education and useful work

Question 44

What was a view that the middle class had on crime?

Answer 44

Blamed the moral habits of the poor such as drunkenness. A number of people joined the temperance movement.

Question 45

What harsher view did some people have on crime?

Answer 45

It was a deliberate choice of poor people 'Criminal class' Children inherited criminal tendencies from parents They could be identified physically

Question 46

Another view on 19thc crime was that publications...

Answer 46

Featuring gruesome details of crime and murders were published. Some campaigners said it was influencing young people

Question 47

Name the 5 changed in Law enforcement from 1750-1829🏃🏼‍♀️⚔️📰👮🏻

Answer 47

1749-Bow street Runners-John&Henry Fielding Late1700s- limitations of policing became clear with rise in population and crime 1773- Hue and cry newspaper is started 1829- Peelers (Metropolitan Police)

Question 48

Why was the first proper police force set up in 1829?

Answer 48

``` Crime increase Growth of towns had made the old law enforcement system ineffective People feared a revolution Gov had become more involved in peoples lives through tax ```

Question 49

In the late 19th Century what two developments were created

Answer 49

Telegraph which sped up communications | Detectives took pictures of crime scenes