HIST 3130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Scientific Revolution, Shoplifting, Quarter Session
1 Jun 2016
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1674 first edition of the old bailey sessions papers is published. 1783 executions are moved from tyburn to newgate. 1829 creation of the london metropolitan police. Georgian and victorian eras (the search for order) The old bailey (central criminal court for london from 1674-1913) The impact of class on popular culture and punishment. Norbert elias (1939) on the civilizing process": the shift from medieval to modern (popular) culture was quashed by an industrial middle class creates cultural consensus but also class conflict. 18th and 19th century britain feared the same fate as the french nobility due to the. French revolution a comprehensive system of law and order was required to keep violence and crime out of the rising middle class. Violence persisted in georgian and victorian societies (frequently) due to the working class. Two conflicting trends: one class consensus (middle class) and one class conflict (working class conditions of poverty due to industrialization)
