fear of crime

• Immigration - irish

  • the irish population expanded rapidly in the East end from the 1840s
  • the first immigtrants were young men planning on then moving to US but had run out of money before the ship could take them
  • made their living working as navvies who did labouring jobs on canals, roads, and railways
  • violence and drunkness common among them
  • not liked
  • irish nationalists demanded freedom from the rule of the UK
  • femains were a catholic group who were seen as a fanatical terrorist movement
  • organised a bomb attack
• eastern european jewish immigrants

  • jews were blamed for a russian assasination
  • a wave of violence and abuse followed and many fled fromRussia, Poland and Germany
  • whitechapel became a segregated community where jewish settlers chose to live seperately from others
  • many jews worked for jewish employers
  • religious and cultural rules about food and clothing made them stand out
  • they also settled with other immigtants, so there was no need to learn english
  • suspicion from locals of unfamilar customs and lang
• politiucal - ANARCHISTS

  • in 1871, anarchists took over paris -they came to britain as they were seen as more politically tolerant
  • some began to feel EL was a refugee to other nations terrorists
  • a speciqal branch european accent or name was seen as a potential anarchist
• Socialists

  • the SDF was the first socialost party in britain, it was found in 1881 to represent argiculture and industrial labourers and the righs of women
  • its leaders wanted a revolution to bring down the capitalist system
  • hated polive
• sources

  • police records - examples of criminal acts that will contain backround / names