Crime and Punishment of the Victorian Era

During the Victorian Era there were unpaid constables policing the streets who were hired by each parish. Multiple murders had occurred in London’s East end, forcing England to take Policing much more serious as this could have potentially destroyed trade with other nations, cities and towns. With this new advancement in Policing came the Metropolitan Police. These individuals were actually paid and the new organization was established in 1829. I was very surprised to learn that they had such weak policing in the begining of the Victorian Era, I always thought that before the Victorian Era itself that Policing was a big thing. I am very glad I read this otherwise i’d be very uninformed on the issue. Besides the death penalty being handed out like hotcakes, I can definitely see a correlation between our prison system vs theirs: We have large prisons that we keep those undesirables in. We hide those do crime away from us so we don’t have to see them. They rot in prisons and do not learn their lessons, instead being dragged further into gangs and drugs. Rehabilitation of criminals is a joke, and sometimes miraculously works (for those whom embrace God and Jesus). In “Great Expectations” people were simply thrown on prison ships and locked in cages like animals. This part of the criminal system is much much harsher then what we have today, thankfully.