Law and Order in the First Part of the Nineteenth Century :: Papers

Law and Order in the First Part of the Nineteenth Century In the first part of the nineteenth century crime was wholeness of the biggest social problems. Crime was made worse by widespread poverty, many people wanted proper law enforcement. May crimes were punishable by death, so the criminals adopted the phase better to be hung for a sheep than a lamb. When Sir Robert Peel became Home Secretary in 1825, he made a right organised constabulary system his propriety. Up to now towns had only their caped night watchmen, with warning bells and rattles. Peels major concern was preventing crime rather than ponderous it. For this reason, in 1829 he established the first regular police force. Large towns such as London were often particularly lawless, and authorities often utilize troops to keep the peace, which was a much-hated practice. In 1829 Peel established a regular police force in London and the suburbs. At first in that respect were 300 Bobbies recr uited and controlled by the Home Office. Their presence soon forced many criminals of the capital. Finally in 1856 every county and borough had to maintain a police force. The Metropolitan police force had many different duties. The man on the beat was there to stop disorderly behaviour. So this meant the Metropolitan legal philosophy Force were to exact with beggars, drunkenness, vagrants and prostitutes. In the second half of the nineteenth centuary Londons streets became more orderly, but as a consequence of this the number of burglaries went up. Another of the Metropolitan Police Forces duties was to deal with major disturbances. Police constables received very little training in the late nineteenth century and often learnt their trade on the job. Police constables worked cardinal days a week and up to fourteen hours a day. In London in the 1870s and 1880s, a beat during daytime was seven and a half miles long whilst at night it was two miles. Pick pocketing was rife in London in the late nineteenth century. Pickpockets were generally about the age of 6-10 years old and had