HIST 1095 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Annie Besant, Catherine Eddowes, Elizabeth Stride
28 Jan 2017
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Crime is a way of thinking about the city. In the 19th century it developed as mean of characterizing a city life. Crime tells us what people though about the city. Introduction: the ripper murders 1888: august to november 1888, polly nicholls, annit chapman, catherine eddowes, elizabeth stride, marry kelly, all murdered within a quarter mile area of east london: spitalfields. Sexual intention of murderer are treated in a pornographic way). Structure of lecture: crime and the city: perception and reality, the space of crime, the sexual underworld: prostitution; pornography; homosexuality, ur(cid:271)a(cid:374) (cid:858)su(cid:271)-(cid:272)ultures(cid:859) a(cid:374)d (cid:272)ri(cid:373)e, crime produced the idea of youth sub-cultures. There is something distinctive about being young: policing crime (1st in the 19th century there are institutions that grow up to deal with crime; the growth of policing in the 19th century is a new form of knowledge. They gather statistics gather evidence, take pictures of criminals a(cid:374)d so o(cid:374).
