Crime and Punishment and Whitechapel

Question 1

Where is Whitechapel located?

Answer 1

East End Of London

Question 2

How much people were homeless?

Answer 2

1 in 30

Question 3

Who is Charles Booth and what did he investigate?

Answer 3

Social Reformer

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

Question 4

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

Answer 4

40 People in One Room

Question 5

What is a penny hang?

Answer 5

Pay a penny to sleep on a hammock

Question 6

What is the Peabody Estate?

Answer 6

Peabody was a reformer who decided to improve living conditions

Question 7

What were the largest minority?

Answer 7

Jews and the Irish

Question 8

Why did most people fear the Irish?

Answer 8

The Irish nationalists called Fenians

Question 9

What is Bloody Sunday?

Answer 9

Where many socialist were killed

Question 10

What did Constables do within Whitechapel?

Answer 10

Walk their beat

Question 11

What was the division within Whitechapel?

Answer 11

H Division

Question 12

What are Rookeries

Answer 12

Close Building or Flats

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Would be fined

Question 14

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

Answer 14

45

Question 15

Who was the Police Commisioner?

Answer 15

Charles Warren

Question 16

Reasons why Jack The Ripper was never caught?

Answer 16

1.Rivalry between Police forces

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

3.Failed to pay sniffer dogs

Question 17

What did the police introduce which took body measurements?

Answer 17

Bertillon System

Question 18

What did the Nobles do?

Answer 18

Help assist the king in keeping Law

Question 19

What are the crimes that can be commited?

Answer 19

Crime against:

Person

Property

Authority

Question 20

What is the Wergild

Answer 20

Money paid to the victim in compensation

Paid to the King in Norman control

Question 21

What is the King Mund

Answer 21

Responsibility to keep the people safe

Question 22

What was the continunity and change in the Norman Era?

Answer 22

Trial by Ordeal continued

Trial by Combat changed

Question 23

What is the Benefit of the Clergy?

Answer 23

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

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Read from the Bible

Question 25

What does Claiming Sanctuary mean?

Answer 25

Church keep person safe for 40 days

Question 26

What is the Statute of Labourers?

Answer 26

Made it a crime to demand for higher wages

Question 27

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

Answer 27

1 Year

Question 28

What is a Coroner?

Answer 28

Investigate suspicious death

Question 29

Who are the keepers of the kings peace?

Answer 29

Help constables

Question 30

Who are the Justices in the Eyre?

Answer 30

Royal judges set to centralise english common law

Question 31

What was the law passed by Henry the 8th?

Answer 31

Made witchcraft punishable by death

Question 32

Why did the witchcraft hated die out?

Answer 32

The Enlightenment (using science) ended by 1700

Question 33

What is the Bloody Code?

Answer 33

Increase of death sentences in crimes

Question 34

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

Answer 34

CON Smuggling INTENSIFIED Poaching INTENSIFIED CHA Highway Robbery

Question 35

Who made the Bow Street Runners in 1748?

Answer 35

Fielding Brothers

Question 36

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

Answer 36

To stop poaching Called the Black Act 1723

Question 37

Why did public excecutions end

Answer 37

These deaths were seen as entertainment rather than a deterrence

Question 38

What were the 1700s prision used for

Answer 38

Holding suspect until trials

Question 39

Who were the Tolpuddle Matyrs made up of?

Answer 39

Local Labourers and George Loveless

Question 40

What was the trade union that George Loveless set up?

Answer 40

Agriculture of Labourers

Question 41

How long were the Tolpuddle Martyrs sent to transportation for?

Answer 41

7 Years

Question 42

What was one of the first prisions built?

Answer 42

Pentonville Prison

Question 43

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

Answer 43

Reflection No influence Deterrence Retribution

Question 44

Who were the two prison reformers?

Answer 44

Elizabeth Fry and Robert Peel

Question 45

What did Elizabeth Fry argue for within prisons?

Answer 45

Women rights Prisoners need to talk about their feelings

Question 46

What did Robert Peel do for prisons?

Answer 46

Improved conditions

Question 47

When was Homosexuality legal until?

Answer 47

1967

Question 48

Why did Vagabonds increase?

Answer 48

Due to Rural Depopulation (Countryside to City)

Question 50

What is anarachism

Answer 50

People should live their way and there should be no government

Question 51

2 features of alcoholism in Whitechapel

Answer 51

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

Question 52

Who are alternativjst

Answer 52

Won’t carry weapon e.g medics

Question 53

Absolutist

Answer 53

No war refused to take part in

Question 54

Why were they acted badly

Answer 54

Deterrence Needed soldiers