How Crime and Punishment Shaped the Victorian Era: A Critical Report

This report examines the relationship between crime and punishment in the Victorian Era (1837-1901), focusing on London. It addresses the research questions of identifying crimes, punishments, and their social impact. The methodology involves secondary research using articles, documents, and educational projects. The findings reveal the shift of people to cities, leading to increased crime, and the implementation of punishments like transportation, hanging, and hard labor. The conclusion emphasizes the era's efforts to create moral and political changes through Queen Victoria's laws, impacting criminals and society. The report references scholarly works to support its analysis.

How crime and punishment influenced the
Victorian Era

Table of contents
• Introduction
• Research question
• Methods
• Results
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
Victorian Era is mainly the period of Queen Victoria reign
from 1837 to 1901. As it serves out and witness all the
rationalism in the area that has been maintained at the time
of the Queen when it has taken being part. It’s a shout that in
that area there were different crimes and punishments that
has been maintained and sentenced according to the Queen’s
law and action. This report will cover all the social
phenomenon relating to crime and punishments in the
Victorian era in London and with that the changes and the
impact that has been raised in people’s life while
implementing such punishments in that era.

Research Question
• What are the crime and
punishment in the Victorian
era in London?
• What is the major social
impact on individual’s life
during Victorian era?

Methods
This report covers all the secondary research
data as all such research work is being made
from articles, various locations, documents
and all the educational projects with
Museum, galleries.

Findings or results
Victorian period was mainly made in
1837 to 1901. As in this period there
were so many people who were moved
from the countryside for various
working in the factory areas there were
several crimes that has been made and
there were penalties that was been made
by the Queen and as a sentence for the
child and adult was same at that time.

Conclusion
From this above report it is concluded that Victorian Eire is
mainly between Eire which has been made in order to
generalise the moral and political changes in the society
through Queens law. There are several crimes and
punishments like robbery, theft, Murder etc. As with that
there were several punishments like transportation, hanging,
hard labour and many more that are being given to the
criminals. Further it is also analysed that all such created a
major impact on the society as that were being made to create
a positive impact on the criminals to change their behaviour
and to reform in a better person.

References
• Steinberg, O.Y., 2019. Race, Nation, History: Anglo-
German Thought in the Victorian Era. University of
Pennsylvania Press.
• Wu, Q., 2021. Tracing Back to the Victorian Era-A Study
of Ventrifuge Strategy in Byatt's Possession. International
Journal of Social Science and Education Research, 4(2),
pp.314-322.
• Zigarovich, J., 2020. Death, Literature, and the Victorian
Era. In The Routledge Companion to Death and
Literature (pp. 288-297). Routledge.

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