Crime & Punishment in Islington
CP SPECIAL ISSUE Crime and Punishment 1d Crime and Punishment Islington, London England. All rights in Islington reserved. 13 Pages Crime in Islington Vol 1 - No.1 [Est. 2009] Special Introductory Price Crime and Punishment in Islington This exhibition traces crime and It concludes with Ruth Ellis, punishment in Islington from who was executed in Holloway 1700 to the 1950s, exploring Prison, the last woman to be 18th century crime, the hanged in Britain, and explores development of the Metropolitan the passionate debate about the Police, the desperate no-go areas death penalty sparked off by her of the overcrowded Victorian trial. slums, the enormous new prisons and a number of high-profile Edwardian murder cases. Field Lane negotiations, a cartoon by ‘Moses’. Convicts exercising in Pentonville Prison yard. CP SPECIAL ISSUE Crime and Punishment 1d Crime and Punishment Islington, London England. All rights in Islington reserved. 13 Pages Crime in Islington Vol 1 - No.1 [Est. 2009] Special Introductory Price th Green. Punishment for those found 18 Century guilty of crime during the 18th century was both swift and severe, Crime with little emphasis on custodial During the 18th century highway sentences. Prisons were typically used robbery, theft, burglary and forgery for holding defendants awaiting trial were mainstay activities of the and convicts awaiting punishment professional criminal and crimes of – imprisonment, as such, was not passion and drunken assault were generally perceived as a punitive commonplace. For many others, measure. committing a felony was one way of attempting to solve life’s problems. Hanging, hard labour, transportation, military duty and physical One criminal in particular caught the chastisement were amongst a variety imagination of the public during the of penalties available to the judiciary first quarter of the 18th century.
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