Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Whitechapel
- What was it like?
- Area of poverty
- Lots of different
type of people
- Overcrowded
- People in
a lot of
transit
- Key areas
- Flower & Dean street
- 902 lodgers staying in the
31 'doss houses' on this
street
- very old - dated
back to 1600
- 16 ft wide
- outside toilets
- home to thieves,
drunkards, &
prostitutes
- 'vicious
semi-criminal'
area - CB
- Whitechapel work house
- available to those who
were too young, old, or
unwell to work
- strict - dictated what
people ate,& how & when
they worked
- Families separated
- parents only
allowed to see
children once
a day
- Peabody estate
- Offered affordable rates
- improved ventilation
- more pleasant
- too high
rate for the
area
- 10 Bells Pub
- A lot of people drank
here, which made
them more likely to
commit crimes
- Prostitutes
- Pick pockets
- Place to get a warm meal
- Casual ward
- took in people who
were sick
- had 400 inmates but
only 60 beds
- strict
- work for their bed
- Pick oakum (rope)
so they wouldn't
want to stay
- Charles Booth
- Successful business man
- Sociological research
- Employed 80
researchers
- Explored poverty, living
conditions, & faith
- Interviewed
policemen & school
board visitors
- MAP
- fear of crime
- 'residuum' - natural
criminals
- Lodging houses & pubs
- overcrowding & unhealthy
living would cause criminal
activity
- addiction to alcohol
caused crime
- & allowed people to become victims
- Immigration
- Why was there immigration?
- jobs
- cheap places to
sleep
- communities of
similar people
- due to language barriers &
cultural differences, jews were
often segregated
- led to prejudice
- socialism & anarchism
- people thought those
who believed in this
were more violent.
- Metropolitan Police
- Public attitudes
- People thought it was a way
for the government to spy on
them
- people attacked them
- A stabbing of a policemen was
deemed as justifiable due to the
tactics they used
- set up in 1829
by Sir Robert
Peel
- paid for by local
london authorities
- controlled by home secretary
- Commissioners & the
home security
- Edmund
Henderson
- 1870
- accused of relaxed police discipline -
allowed them to grow beards &
reduce military drills
- forced to resign
in 1886
- Trial of the detectives
- uncovered corruption of police
- Thomas Titley
- forced to
break the
law by the
police
- made people
suspicious of
the police
- Charles Warren
- tried to
raise
standards
- focus on military discipline
- made people worry the
police was becoming an
army
- bad press reaction
- Policing
- H division
- 505 policemen for 176,000 people
- 1 for every 390
- Recruits
- 21-32 years
- 5"9'+
- no more than 2 children
- can't own a trade
- read & write
- fit
- 3 weeks of
training
- preferably
from
countryside
- Details about
Ripper's murders
- victims
- Mary Nichols
- 31st August
- 1st victim
- found in bucks row
- Elizabeth stride &
Catherine Endows
- ES - found 1st in
Outfields Yard
- CE -found in Mitre
square, badly
mutilated,
disemboweled
- part of apron
found at goulston
street
- same night - 30 sept
- Annie Chapman
- 8 sept
- tips on georges yard
- signs of being
strangled
- Mary kelly
- 9 nov
- happened
inside
- How did police try to
catch the ripper?
- Observation
- keeping the
area clear of
onlookers so no
evidence was
tampered with
- Inspector to make
careful note of the
scene
- wasn't always
possible due to lack
of light
- photos &
sketches
- of the bodies &
of suspects
- autopsy
- criminal
profiling
- interviews
- went to houses &
businesses near the
murders
- full-scale searches -
questioned over 2,000
- focus on butchers & slaughter men
- statements written on paper
- The press
- full of criticism
- suggestions on what to do better
- use bloodhounds
- disguise police
men as
prostitutes
- sensationalised stories, exaggerated
- posted fake facts
- made people wonder why they hadt caught him yet
- published ripper letters
- vigilance committee
- 2private detectives
- Metro & city
- worked well together
- other divisions sent extra men to help
- H division learnt lots from city
- use of photography
- didn't work well
- at risk of anti-semitic rioting met
decided to rub of graffiti before
camera arrived
- happened in cities territory