Key Vocab - Whitechapel

Lodging houses

very cheap accommodation

rookery

city’s slums

Peabody estate

new housing which is better quality due to slum clearance

anarchism

the idea that people are better off with no government or laws

workhouses

unpopular places where you could work for a bed

doss houses

common lodging houses

Flower and Dean Street

slum street with poor condidtions

Charles Booth

the person who devised a map showing the poverty and wealth in Whitechapel

Edmund Henderson

the person criticised for making the police too relaxed

H division

Whitechapel area

Trial of Detectives

where the police forced police officers to commit crimes (fake identity)

Use of Alcohol

this disorientated people, so they are more susceptible to crimes

instruction booklet for candidates and constables

how police officers should have behaved at a crime scene

the Beat

the route police officers would take to patrol London

Racketeering

what you paid for for the ‘protection’ from Gangs

CID

the criminal Investigation department

Punch magazine

aimed at middle/upper classes (unlike the penny dredful)

Sir Charles Warren

the person criticised for turning the police into the army, and washed the Goulston graffiti off

Satirical

exposing or criticising something by poking fun at it - particularly political

Sensationalised

created for the public’s intrest - not necessarily true