Task – 5 minutes Do you think crime would have got better or worse during the Industrial Revolution? Why or why not? Discuss with the person sitting next

Task – 5 minutes

• Do you think crime would have got better or worse during the Industrial Revolution? Why or why not?

• Discuss with the person sitting next to you

Was Industrial England a safe place to live?

L4• Identify what was new in Industrial England

L5• Describe Victorian crime

L6

• Explain why there was/was not an increase in crime during the Industrial Revolution

Key Words

RailwayCanalCrime

Task – 5 minutes

• List 5 words to describe life in Industrial towns

• How could each one lead to more crime?


L5•Describe Victorian crime

L6•Explain why there was/was not an increase in crime during the Industrial Revolution




What was new?

How might this lead to new crimes?

L4

• Identify what was new in Industrial England

L5

• Describe Victorian crime

L6

• Explain why there was/was not an increase in crime during the Industrial Revolution

What was new?

How might this lead to new crimes?

Task

• In groups of no more than 4

• Read the sources and complete the table




Evidence that crime increased in the period 1750-1900

Evidence that crime did not increase in the period 1750-1900

Evidence that there was more crime because of the Industrial Revolution

Evidence that changes in crime had nothing to do with the Industrial Revolution

Evidence suggesting that there the Industrial Revolution caused changes in people’s lives which led them to commit more crimes

Evidence suggesting other causes of an increase in crime

Extension

Design a poster to educate other year 8 students about crime during the Industrial

Revolution




Source 1 From a newspaper report

ROBBERYMr. Free, of No. 157, Fenchurch-street, was on Wednesday night robbed of a red leather purse, 9 sovereigns, 26 shillings and £6

HOUSE-BREAKINGOn Monday night between 6 and 7 o'clock, the house ofMr.Edward Powell, was entered by smashing the front kitchen window, and a wooden box stolen. The thieves were two boys, who escaped, each about sixteen years of age, and both of them wearing hat.

The dwelling-house of Mrs. Hardcastle, was broken into and between two and three hundred pounds weight of green and black tea, four lumps of sugar, a tea spoon, and a pair of silver reading glasses stolen.

Source 2From a newspaper report

HOUSE-BREAKINGOn Sunday night a bank was entered by using fake keys, and a large amount of money was stolen. A Reward of One Hundred Pounds is offered for any information which leads to the conviction of the thieves.

The following is a description of the persons suspected to have committed the crime: One of the persons is about five feet eleven inches high, of about thirty years of age, black hair, and a beard. He was dressed in a black coat, black trousers, white tie, wellington boots, and had an old grey coat. The other is about thirty years of age, five feet seven or eight inches high, slender made, sandy hair, and was dressed in a brown coat, grey trousers, and had a red silk tie around his neck.

Source 3From a list of crimes committed on

trainsNAME AND ADDRESS DATE AND NATURE OF OFFENCE.

Joseph Openshaw, Goldborne, Lancashire. Travelling without a ticket from Manchester to Newton-le-Willows, July 1st, 17th,and 18th, 1890.

George William Arnold, Culcheth, Kenyon. Travelling without a ticket from Manchester to Kenyon, July 3rd, 23rd, and 31st , 1890

John Connelly,Farrimond's Houses, Bradley Lane, Wothington.

Travelling without a ticket from Manchester to Wigan, July 7th, 1890.

Source 4 – From a police report

Names Date and Place where offence committed Whether violence was involved.

John Spittal and two others -

Thomas Dennett And John Pankhurst

Arrested for stealing from the Oxford Mail Cart at Brackley in the County of Nothampton on the 15th October 1827 four mail Bags containing Bank notes

Arrested for stealing from the Lewes Mail Cart at Lewes on the 18th November 1828 - Three Coats

No

No

Source 6 – From a police report about crimes on canals

There is evidence that wool, on its way to be sold in Yorkshire, was stolen from canal boats. Cloth has also been stolen on its way from Yorkshire to Manchester

Source 7 – From a police reportThe very great and truly alarming increase of robberies of every Kind in different parts of this country, is such that it is not safe to travel the roads, or sleep in our own houses, or let cows graze [eat] in the fields.

Source 8 – Average number of crimes each year between 1874 and 1879

1.Murder..2.Shooting at Stabbing Wounding with intent to maim, etc.

3.Burglary....4. Robbery, Robbery with violence, and Assaults to Rob

5. Larceny from the person.6. Larceny, simple.

7. Receiving stolen goods.8. Assaults and inflicting bodily harm.

9. Other Offences.. Total.....

.....68.....154

......330

......270....1,256

.....6,123......452

.......902......6,333

Source 9 – From a book about Victorian crime

Reasons for an increase in crime

1. During the Industrial Revolution the population of London grew by a large amount

2. The police grew and became better at their jobs. This meant that more crimes were found out

Source 10 – A book written in the Victorian period about reasons for crime

Parents no longer have any control over their children. Instead parents are controlled by their children.

Boys and girls prefer to leave the homes of their parents and live with friends. Therefore to try and keep their children longer, parents allow their children, while at home, to do whatever they like

Source 11Drunkenness is the reason for all crimes. It sends many men and women to prison.

Documents

Task – 5 minutes Do you think crime would have got better or worse during the Industrial Revolution? Why or why not? Discuss with the person sitting next