Crime In Victorian London

¨Gang members have been responsible for 61 percent of all homicides [in Chicago] in 2011, up from 58.7 percent in 2010¨ (Hidden America). These are some of the few disturbing statistics about gang violence in Chicago; however, as many people do not know, gangs have not always been about drugs and violence. In the early 19th century, gangs are not what people perceive them to be today. Gangs in the 19th century were volunteers with the fire department back in the Antebellum Period, which is the period before the civil war and after the War of 1812. As time went on and as the professional firemen forced the volunteers to break up, they started spreading apart. Then by the late 19th century, gangs started developing on the south side. This is

Nineteenth century London is famous for being the birth place of the Industrial Revolution. But that is not all the victorians are famous for, they are also known for their high crime rate and being the home of multiple notorious serial killers, like Jack the Ripper. London was also overpopulated which some think might be the cause of the high crime rate. Though Urbanization did have an affect on crime,an incompetent police force and a media that glamorized crime also contributed to the high crime rate.

It was suspected during the time period that overcrowding was the cause of the increased crime rate. People saw that the population growth—must like the popularity of gin—coincided with the rise crime. As London became an industrial city it needed a more unskilled workers to power its “textile, iron, metal goods, and pottery production” factories (“Crime and Punishment” par 2). This caused unskilled workers from “small rural towns” and “villages” into the city in hopes of finding work ("Crime and Punishment," par 1). This may seem like a good idea, but unfortunately the population of the city rose quicker than expected and thus hadn’t had an adequate amount of time to adjust to the booming population growth—over 400 percent in just 50 years ("Crime and Punishment," par 1).

This essay will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of sociological explanations of crimes with links to Durkheim’s anomie theory, Merton’s strain theory and the Labelling theory which will draw upon different academics that will highlight these specific areas of research. In sociological terms, crime is a social concept as it does not exist as an autonomous entity, but it is socially constructed by people. It can be analysed that sociological explanations of crime attribute deviance to various aspects of the social environment. For example, crime is strongly related to modern city life where this type of social environment creates cultural enclaves which results in producing criminal or deviant behaviour (Carrabine et al, 2014).

Since the 19th century, law enforcement and punishment has developed rapidly into the justice system we rely on today. Obscure laws that had become irrelevant in an industrial and post-industrial era were fast being replaced, and despite its lack of existence at the beginning of the 1800’s, policing standards are, today, high. The necessity for this drastic change in approach to crime has stemmed from the needs of industrial Britain, and the increased awareness of the public, and government, and their perception of crime and punishment. Rather than individual cases having a direct impact on these changes, in general they provide an insight as to the reactions of the public at the time, and along with the myriad of other cases, allow us

Criminal activity during the 1920s played a major role throughout the entirety of the decade, as it related to the newfound culture the Roaring Twenties entailed. As the nation strove to achieve the American Dream, parties, money and social representation became a main contribute to an individual’s persona. As these factors were sought to be obtained, many criminal engagements were enacted. These crimes included but were not limited to, bootlegging, organized crime, scandals and murder, which were set by the infamous Al Capone and the Mafia, with contribution to the corruption of the FBI, the KKK and their racial and religious prejudice, Leopold and Loeb, and Warren G. Harding, in relation to the Teapot Dome Scandal. All of these acts are relative to modern society as they paved way for greater emphasis on civil and political issues in the following decades, as society began to regard national security and pushed toward a movement to enact stricter laws and regulations towards individual matters.

From 1880-1924, in order to escape persecution from Alexander the II’s reign and anti-Semitism, Russian Jews emigrated to America to escape a wave of religious persecution, a chance at a new life spurred on by the economic turmoil caused by industrialization, and for economic reasons. They arrived during, "The New Immigration" the wave of immigration that lasted from 1880-1924. A vast majority of the Jews settled on the East coast in places such as Manhattan, Boston, and Philadelphia. They also settled in other larger more industrialized and urbanized cities such as Chicago, Seattle and Detroit. The jobs Russian Jews held were mostly low skilled trades such as tailors and butchers or even worked in the early sweatshops.

This investigation focuses on answering the question: How did Irish Mob activity in New York City change during the Prohibition Era? The paper will address the different ways crime progressed in New York City from 1915-1935. This time period allows for greater perspective of crime patterns shortly before, during, and directly following the Prohibition Era. The key organized crime groups during this time period were Irish Mob gangs such as the White Hand and Gopher Gangs. In order to properly investigate the question and analyze findings it will be essential to use primary source documents including but not limited to the New York Times’ article “Our Town and Its Folk; Tyro Motorists and Other Citizens” written in 1925.

Elizabethan England was split into two classes - the Upper Class, the nobility, and everyone else. Punishment would usually be seen to vary in severity according to class. The Upper class were well educated, wealthy and associated with Royalty or high members of the clergy. They would often become involved in Political arguments and religious matters. The nobility could therefore become involved in crime to do with these things. The most common crimes of the Nobility included things such as High Treason (the crime of betraying one's country, especially by attempting to kill or overthrow the sovereign or government), Blasphemy (the action or offence of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things; profane talk), Sedition (conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch), Spying, Rebellion, Murder, Witchcraft and Alchemy (a philosophical and protoscientific tradition practiced throughout Europe, Egypt and Asia. It aimed to purify, mature, and perfect certain objects).

According to the reading material, street gangs have been around since the early eighteenth century, they have their roots on the eastern seaboard. As the Revolutionary war ended our newly formed nation was flooded by immigrants seeking freedom and a life free of oppression. Our book explains that these Immigrants felt isolated and therefore began forming social groups of their peers. These groups were formed not only to get a sense of belonging but also for protection from other groups of migrants. What began on the east coast slowly moved across our nation, from what I got from the reading gangs and gang activity seemed to follow the money so to speak. It seems as soon as a community began to have a business boom then population grows. The

The 1920's, or the Roaring Twenties as this epoch is often referred to as, was a major turning point in America history. During this time period many American citizens believed and even acted out of hedonism. This mindset of the general population and along with other dilemmas led to a stunning and rapid increase in the amount of organized crime. The sudden uproar of organized crime during the 1920's was caused mainly by prohibition that gave rise to many street gangs, all with one man at its helm, which caused a massive increase in police forces.

Reluctant Criminologists (John Pitts, 2012) explores the concept that gangs today both do in fact exist and are threatening. Pitts disputes that those on the criminological left refuse the presence of gangs and the detrimental disorder they generate. Thus, Pitts classifies gangs today as the ‘new face of crime’. In his examination of this, he considers why a vast majority deny the acceptation of this perception; better known as the ‘UK Gangland Thesis’. Pitts cites that the left realist discourse neglects the reality of crime and the consequences that societies later face will stem from the youth culture that should be ‘condemned rather than romanticised’ (Hallsworth). However Pitts also explores an ‘organised slum’ produced in criminal gangs

During the Middle Ages, criminals were punished in many different ways. The punishment was all dependent upon the severity of the crime. Punishments ranged from a simple fine all the way up to a death sentence. There were three types of law that governed the people: natural law, divine law, and customary law. The type of crime was based off of the governing law that was broken. Some of the biggest were crimes against God, crimes against the king, felonies, and commercial crime. The biggest flaw within the court system is that the rich were able to hire better lawyers and those lawyers were able to lessen the sentences. Criminal activity was not taken lightly during the Middle Ages because the objective was to strike fear within the people 's hearts and make them tremble at the thought of disobeying the law.

This essay will give an in depth understanding of the social views towards Jack the Ripper in the 1880s in London, East End. Also, the living conditions of East End and the different kind of people that were situated there in the late 1880s. Throughout the essay a brief introduction of the main suspect, Jack the Ripper will be discussed and the potential reasons of the murders. The main 5 victims who suffered from the wrath of Jack the Ripper will also be discussed in detail and the possible reasons why they were chosen to be the victims from many. In the essay the other suspected victims will also be touched upon.

The year is 1861. I am 10 years old. I live in the Victorian era. I lost my parents to diseases. So now live on the streets as a pickpocket. Most of us come from parents who were