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Crime and Punishment and Whitechapel Flashcards

1
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Where is Whitechapel located?

A

East End Of London

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2
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How much people were homeless?

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1 in 30

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3
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Who is Charles Booth and what did he investigate?

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Social Reformer

Found out 37.5% of East Londerners were living in utter poverty

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4
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How many people could live in the same room within Whitechapel?

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40 People in One Room

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5
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What is a penny hang?

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Pay a penny to sleep on a hammock

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6
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What is the Peabody Estate?

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Peabody was a reformer who decided to improve living conditions

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7
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What were the largest minority?

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Jews and the Irish

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8
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Why did most people fear the Irish?

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The Irish nationalists called Fenians

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9
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What is Bloody Sunday?

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Where many socialist were killed

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10
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What did Constables do within Whitechapel?

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Walk their beat

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11
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What was the division within Whitechapel?

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H Division

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12
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What are Rookeries

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Close Building or Flats

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13
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What would happen if a constable missed a crime whilst being on their beat?

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Would be fined

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14
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How many pubs could be found within a 1 mile radius?

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45

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15
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Who was the Police Commisioner?

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Charles Warren

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16
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Reasons why Jack The Ripper was never caught?

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1.Rivalry between Police forces

2.Not enough police officers (2 Murders happening in the same area)

3.Failed to pay sniffer dogs

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17
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What did the police introduce which took body measurements?

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Bertillon System

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18
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What did the Nobles do?

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Help assist the king in keeping Law

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19
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What are the crimes that can be commited?

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Crime against:

Person

Property

Authority

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20
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What is the Wergild

A

Money paid to the victim in compensation

Paid to the King in Norman control

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21
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What is the King Mund

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Responsibility to keep the people safe

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22
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What was the continunity and change in the Norman Era?

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Trial by Ordeal continued

Trial by Combat changed

23
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What is the Benefit of the Clergy?

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Having a connection to the Church alowed them be be trialed in a more leniant church

24
Q

How you could be tested if you were in the Church?

A

Read from the Bible

25
Q

What does Claiming Sanctuary mean?

A

Church keep person safe for 40 days

26
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What is the Statute of Labourers?

A

Made it a crime to demand for higher wages

27
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How long were constables expected to lead the hue and cry for?

A

1 Year

28
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What is a Coroner?

A

Investigate suspicious death

29
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Who are the keepers of the kings peace?

A

Help constables

30
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Who are the Justices in the Eyre?

A

Royal judges set to centralise english common law

31
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What was the law passed by Henry the 8th?

A

Made witchcraft punishable by death

32
Q

Why did the witchcraft hated die out?

A

The Enlightenment (using science) ended by 1700

33
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What is the Bloody Code?

A

Increase of death sentences in crimes

34
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What are the changes and continuinity in the crimes during the industrial period crimes?

A

CON
Smuggling INTENSIFIED
Poaching INTENSIFIED
CHA
Highway Robbery

35
Q

Who made the Bow Street Runners in 1748?

A

Fielding Brothers

36
Q

Why was it illegal to blacken someones face during the 1700-1900

A

To stop poaching

Called the Black Act 1723

37
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Why did public excecutions end

A

These deaths were seen as entertainment rather than a deterrence

38
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What were the 1700s prision used for

A

Holding suspect until trials

39
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Who were the Tolpuddle Matyrs made up of?

A

Local Labourers and George Loveless

40
Q

What was the trade union that George Loveless set up?

A

Agriculture of Labourers

41
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How long were the Tolpuddle Martyrs sent to transportation for?

A

7 Years

42
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What was one of the first prisions built?

A

Pentonville Prison

43
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What were the reasons for the prisioners being seperate in the Pentonville prision?

A

Reflection

No influence

Deterrence

Retribution

44
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Who were the two prison reformers?

A

Elizabeth Fry and Robert Peel

45
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What did Elizabeth Fry argue for within prisons?

A

Women rights

Prisoners need to talk about their feelings

46
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What did Robert Peel do for prisons?

A

Improved conditions

47
Q

When was Homosexuality legal until?

A

1967

48
Q

Why did Vagabonds increase?

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Due to Rural Depopulation (Countryside to City)

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A
50
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What is anarachism

A

People should live their way and there should be no government

51
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2 features of alcoholism in Whitechapel

A

Was drunk more than water due to how dirty it was therefore more violence

Alcohol was cheap throughout the high amount of pubs used to escape the conditions

52
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Who are alternativjst

A

Won’t carry weapon e.g medics

53
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Absolutist

A

No war refused to take part in

54
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Why were they acted badly

A

Deterrence

Needed soldiers

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