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Flashcards by Michael Sessions, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Michael Sessions
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| Question | Answer |
| What are the key dates of the industrial period? | 1750-1900 |
| What was the most common form of crime in the industrial period? | Petty theft |
| What was the percentage of violent crime in the industrial period? | 10% |
| Most crime in the industrial period could be described as what? | Opportunistic |
| The rapid rise in what can partly explain the rise in crime in the first half of the 19th century? | Population |
| Why was there a massive increase in crime after 1815? | Napoleonic wars came to an end |
| What do we call the group of people who made the link between poverty and crime? | Radical thinkers |
| Which radical thinker wrote the book The Moral, Social and Religious Condition of Ipswich in the middle of the Nineteenth Century'? | John Glyde |
| What habits of the poor did the middle class blame the spread of crime on? | Poor moral habits |
| What substance did the middle-class believe was the main cause of the rise in crime? | Alcohol |
| People who had a harsh view of poor criminals grouped them into two categories, what were these categories? | Criminal class / criminal type |
| When criminals went to prison what did the authorities do to help support theories about the physical appearances of prisoners? | Took Photographs |
| What aspects of crime were people in the industrial period particularly interested in? | murder and murderers |
| What opened in 1802 allowing people to see models of murderers? | Madam Tussaud's |
| What name is given to the cheap illustrated weekly newspapers which gave reports of the most shocking crimes? | Penny dreadfuls |
| What was policing in 1750 still based upon? | Medieval and Early modern methods. |
| John fielding was a magistrate at which court? | Bow street |
| Fielding organised part-time constables to patrol London's main streets each evening until when? | Midnight |
| What name was given to the part-time constables? | Bow Street Runners |
| In 1773 fielding also began publishing information about crime. What was the name of his weekly newspaper? | The Hue and Cry |
| What were the two reasons why Fielding's ideas about crime were not supported in his life time? | They were radical and cost money |
| What position in the government was Robert Peel appointed to in 1822? | Home Secretary |
| What year did Peel finally get parliament to agree to the creation of the Metropolitan Police force? | 1829 |
| How many police men initially made up the Met? | 3000 |
| How was the Met going to be paid for? | Taxes |
| What 2 nicknames were given to police officers from the Met? | Peelers / bobbies |
| So they would not be mistaken for soldiers what did met police officers wear? | Dark Blue tall hat and coat. |
| Metropolitan Police officers were unarmed except for what? | A truncheon |
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