Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 9:33 am Post subject: Question 1 - Law & Order Links, Notes, Lessons etc
1. Describe law and order in London in the late nineteenth century.
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Aim for about 400 words.
Useful Web Links:
Crime and the Victorians
By Professor Clive Emsley
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/crime_01.shtml Garrotting and the murders of Jack the Ripper provoked nation-wide panics during the 19th century. Were the Victorians right to think that crime was in decline?
HISTORY OF THE METROPOLITAN POLICE FORCE.
By Julian Rosenthal.
http://www.casebook.org/dissertations/ripperoo-history.html During the reign of Queen Victoria, (1837 - 1901), the population of England doubled and the Industrial Revolution put new pressures on her society. This caused an increase in the crime rate and the problem of where to house these criminals worsened.
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