Industrial rev. Crime + Punishment

Question 1

What Happened to the population during this time?

Answer 1

Population grew from 7 million in 1750 to 42 million in 1900

Question 2

What social changes occurred this time?

Answer 2

Division between rich and poop

Question 3

what was life like in overcrowded cities?

Answer 3

Crime,drunkeness and violence.

Question 4

What was the bloody code?

Answer 4

a time in which executions were used for punishment

Question 5

Who was Robert Peel?

Answer 5

Home secretary/ Prime minister

Question 6

What did Robert Peel introduce?

Answer 6

The first police force called “the Peelers”

Question 7

After the 19th century what was the main type of crime being committed?

Answer 7

Theft

Question 8

Peoples attitude toward punishment changed, what did they believe during the 19th Century?

Answer 8

Punishment should match the crime, execution too severe

Question 9

What replaced the Bloody code?

Answer 9

Transportation

Question 10

explain transportation as a form of punishment?

Answer 10

prisoners sent to Australia

7 yrs free labour

Question 11

Why did the system of “Transportation” end?

Answer 11

Australia didn’t want anymore criminals

Question 12

what became the alternative to transportation?

Answer 12

Prisons.