Crime

• What happened to the frequency of Crimes in industrial England?

  Increase in crimes like

  Burgulary
• What happened to the frequency of crimes in Industrial England?

  Increased number of crimes eg

  Burgulary

  Drunk and Disorderly behaviour

  Prostitution

  Public Disorder
• Why was there an increase in crime?

  Increased in the number of people traveling looking for work

  Towns grew bigger Communities less tightly knit

  Extreme poverty
• What were the changes in poaching?

  Large poaching gangs

  Watham Black act 1700 Tried to deal with it
• Why was there an increase in Smuggling?

  More goods

  Rise in import tax

  Social crime so cheaper goods benefited others
• What did the government do to try combat smuggling?

  Customs offices Prosecute smugglers

  Seen as a Social Crime so people didn't turn in smugglers
• Why was Highway robbery a thing?

  Increase in Roads and travelling

  No banks so people had to carry money

  Remote isolated roads
• What caused A decline in Highway Robbery cases?

  Last case 1831

  Part of the Bloody code so punishable by death

  Mounted patrols on roads and growth or railways reduced opportunities for highway robbery

  Taverns more likely to sell out highway robbers
• When was the death penalty introduced to anyone found armed and in a disguise?

  1772
• When and what was the Black Act?

  1723

  Aimed to limit poaching
• When was Poaching not made a crime punishable by the death penalty?

  1823

  Black Act repealed

  Lead by Robert Peel