Week 6: Unrest, Policing and Prisons

Early depiction of the Metropolitan Police

 

 

This week we will be analysing the nature of challenges to government authority in the early Nineteenth Century and the development of policing. We will then start to analyse the changing nature of prisons.

 

Last week we rather anachronistically looked at witchcraft. You know that will definitely come up in your exam because that is the only entension topic we have done.

 

 

Crime Song 6: 'Guns of Brixton' - The Clash (1979)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiQoq-wqZxg



Week ?: Transportation

It has been a long time since the last post. Most of our time since then has been on US Civil Rights with the odd bit of the Bloody Code, Jonathan Wild, Guy Fawkes and the background to Crime and Punishment 1750-1900 thrown in for good measure.

This week we will be looking at Transportation and we'll be traveling to America, Australia and a village just outside of Dorchester

Festival in honour of the Topuddle Martyrs

Extended Learning Assignment

Why did the authorities start using transportation as a punishment in the 1660s and stop using it in 1868? (12)

• In the 1660s some criminals were sent to the Americas
• 1823: Gaol Act
• By the 1830s it was costing half a million pounds per year to transport criminals to Australia

Crime Song 5: 'Down By the Water' - PJ Harvey (1995)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbq4G1TjKYg