Depictions of Crime
What famed English author is discussed at length in Emsley's piece?
Who is Charles Dickens.
What authors that we have already read in other sessions gives a broad history as to urban crime, revolutions, social reform, and dangers at the time?
Who are Lynn Hollen and Andrew Lees.
Who was the real life person behind Jack the Ripper?
What is unidentified person.
What urban socioeconomic trend was crime heavily tied to?
what is poverty.
What sort of religious or ethnic groups were often depicted as criminals within literature?
What are minorities (Irish, Italians, non-Europeans).
Which author discusses gender roles relating to crime?
Who is Judith Wolkowitz.
How many did Jack the Ripper kill (confirmed)?
What is 5.
What gender movement grew with voting rights in 1867 UK, Germany in 1871, and 1848 in France? (Lee reading)
What is women's suffrage
What criminal act primarily conducted by women at the time was seen as "immoral" and against motherhood?
What is Prostitution.
Which author argues that morality played a massive role in police's efforts?
who is David Churchill.
What kinds of label did Victorian London slap onto the victims of Jack the Ripper?
What is "immoral" "prostitute" and "fallen women".
What socioeconomic groups did constables and local law enforcement tend to favor?
What are middle or upper class urban citizens.
Which types of people were seen as the most redeemable criminals, or "corrupted"?
What are women and children.
Which specific author wrote this quote:
- "The murdered women were objects of fantasy for residents of Whitechapel as well as for the educated reading public"
Who is Judith Wolkowitz.
Which ethnic group was disproportionately targeted by the police and community leaders in Whitechapel?
What was one of the most important issues to police at the time? (List one).
What are:
- Drunkenness
- Gambling
- Prostitution.
Which fictional criminal was based on Jack the Ripper
Who is Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Which specific author wrote this quote:
- "The fascination with criminal argot was not new to the nineteenth century and books on such cant went back to the early modern period.? But the emphasis on criminal language was another way of emphasizing the separateness of the criminal classes from ordinary society."
Who is Clive Emsley?
Who was the first victim of Jack the Ripper?
Who is Mary Ann Nichols.
What German city had an extremely similar cholera outbreak to London in 1892?
What is Hamburg.