crime and punishment

• when did the peabody estate open

  1881
• what were rookeries

  overcrowded areas with poor quality of housing
• how many lodges houses in white chapel

  over 200
• what did workhouses offer

  food and shelter
• casual wards?


  most basic accommodation where vagrants stayed
• how many flats were there at peabody

  286
• how expensive was peabody

  3 shillings a week for 1 room
• why were immigrants attracted to white chapel

  cheap accommodation
• who established the metropolitan police and when?

  Rober peel
• roles of beat constables


  Stopping citizens and questioning them - discover or prevent crimes.

  knowing where crimes would take place and to stop them

  reporting to the beat sergeant - written record of events for the future.
• Whitechapel attitudes towards policing

  gangs attacked beat constables
• Rookeries impact on policing


  Overcrowding - hard to find the criminal

  poor citizens had better knowledge of the area

  H divisions had many suspects - hard to find them all
• alcohols impact on H division


  Witnesses would be too drunk to speak

  drunk victims might not report a crime
• gangs affecting H division

  witnesses did not report gangs - as they were scared they would attack them

  H division was unfunded - They didn't have enough constables to arrest gangs.