Task – 5 minutes

1. Task – 5 minutes • Do you think crime would have got better or worse during the Industrial Revolution? Why or why not? • Discuss with the person sitting next to you

2. Was Industrial England a safe place to live? Key Words Railway Canal Crime

3. Task – 5 minutes • List 5 words to describe life in Industrial towns • How could each one lead to more crime?

4. What was new? How might this lead to new crimes?

5. What was new? How might this lead to new crimes?

6. Task • In groups of no more than 4 • Read the sources and complete the table

8. Extension Design a poster to educate other year 8 students about crime during the Industrial Revolution

9. Source 1 From a newspaper report ROBBERYMr. Free, of No. 157, Fenchurch-street, was on Wednesday night robbed of a red leather purse, 9 sovereigns, 26 shillings and £6 HOUSE-BREAKING On Monday night between 6 and 7 o'clock, the house ofMr.Edward Powell, was entered by smashing the front kitchen window, and a wooden box stolen. The thieves were two boys, who escaped, each about sixteen years of age, and both of them wearing hat. The dwelling-house of Mrs.Hardcastle, was broken into and between two and three hundred pounds weight of green and black tea, four lumps of sugar, a tea spoon, and a pair of silver reading glasses stolen.

10. Source 2 From a newspaper report HOUSE-BREAKING On Sunday night a bank was entered by using fake keys, and a large amount of money was stolen. A Reward of One Hundred Pounds is offered for any information which leads to the conviction of the thieves. The following is a description of the persons suspected to have committed the crime: One of the persons is about five feet eleven inches high, of about thirty years of age, black hair, and a beard. He was dressed in a black coat, black trousers, white tie, wellington boots, and had an old grey coat. The other is about thirty years of age, five feet seven or eight inches high, slender made, sandy hair, and was dressed in a brown coat, grey trousers, and had a red silk tie around his neck.

11. Source 3 From a list of crimes committed on trains

12. Source 4 – From a police report

14. Source 6 – From a police report about crimes on canals There is evidence that wool, on its way to be sold in Yorkshire, was stolen from canal boats. Cloth has also been stolen on its way from Yorkshire to Manchester

15. Source 7 – From a police report The very great and truly alarming increase of robberies of every Kind in different parts of this country, is such that it is not safe to travel the roads, or sleep in our own houses, or let cows graze [eat] in the fields.

16. Source 8 – Average number of crimes each year between 1874 and 1879

17. Source 9 – From a book about Victorian crime Reasons for an increase in crime • During the Industrial Revolution the population of London grew by a large amount • The police grew and became better at their jobs. This meant that more crimes were found out

18. Source 10 – A book written in the Victorian period about reasons for crime Parents no longer have any control over their children. Instead parents are controlled by their children. Boys and girls prefer to leave the homes of their parents and live with friends. Therefore to try and keep their children longer, parents allow their children, while at home, to do whatever they like

19. Source 11 Drunkenness is the reason for all crimes. It sends many men and women to prison.