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Victorian Crime, Punishment, and the Criminal Classes

Evan Cusmano and Jonathan Orkwis. Victorian Crime, Punishment, and the Criminal Classes. The Courts and Judiciary. Court conditions were very different Very quick More power than today Prosecutor was typically the victim Every court different. Prison Conditions.

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Victorian Crime, Punishment, and the Criminal Classes

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  1. Evan Cusmano and Jonathan Orkwis Victorian Crime, Punishment, and the Criminal Classes

  2. The Courts and Judiciary • Court conditions were very different • Very quick • More power than today • Prosecutor was typically the victim • Every court different

  3. Prison Conditions • Not separate prisons for how old you are • Strict, wanted to enforce punishment • Dirty

  4. What Criminals were Arrested For • Pick pocketing, high way robbery, murder and shoplifting • Varied from court to court • Crimes against another family

  5. Capital Punishment • Burning • Hanging • Banishment • Beheading

  6. Crimes Deserving Capital Punishment • Serious crimes (Murder & Treason) • Minor crimes (Pick Pocketing & Stealing food)

  7. Garroting • Street robbery • Done as a group • 1850’s and 1860’s • 1862 virtual campaign against garroting

  8. Criminal Class • Was a social group on its own • Lowest of the low • Began in middle century

  9. Bobbies & Peelers • Police force • Named after Robert Peel • Metropolitan police • 1829 organized police force • On bikes and horses

  10. Scotland Yard • Headquarters in London • Norman Shaw Buildings • 1967 and 1979 • Colonel Charles Rowan and Richard Mayne • Two theories on how it got the name

  11. Old Bailey • Location convenient for transporting prisoners • Destroyed in 1666 by fire • Open air in 1673

  12. Old Bailey (cont.) • 1737 – closed in and passage way • Jury were moved together • Crowds wanted in • 1774 - Reconstruction £15K • Fire in 1877 • 1907 - pulled down prison and remains • New building £392K

  13. Newgate • Prison for Old Bailey • 1188 Henry II • Destroyed in 1666 • 1672 – 1904 • Remodeled in 1770 w/ £50K • 1169 excuted • Ran by some of the richest men

  14. Jack the Ripper • Killed at least 4 women • Never caught • Police disagreement • Within a mile • Whitechapel Murderer and “Leather Apron”

  15. Jack the Ripper (cont.) • Victims • Mary Ann Nichols 8/31/1888 • Annie Chapman 9/8/1888 • Elizabeth Stride and Catharine Eddowes 9/30/1888 • Mary Jane Kelly 11/9/1888 • Strangle and then slit throat • Seemed to have medical knowledge

  16. Crime & Punishment in Victorian Literature • Charles Dickens and William Thackeray wrote about hangings • Petty crimes became more frequent • Authors wrote about the criminals • They also wrote about the hangings

  17. Londoner’s View of the Streets • First to appear in large city with literate people • Actions of police were followed • New press made it new thing • Took advantage • Never caught

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