Key Vocab - Whitechapel

Anarchism — the idea that people are better of with no government and no laws

the Beat — the route police officers would take to patrol London

Charles Booth — devised a map showing poverty and wealth in Whitechapel

CID — criminal investigation department

Doss houses — common lodging houses

Edmund Henderson — criticised for making the police too relaxed - growing beards

Flower and Dean Street — a common slum street with poor conditions

H Division — the Whitechapel area

Instruction booklet for candidates and constables — how police officers behaved at a crime scene

Lodging houses — very cheap accommodation

Peabody Estate — new housing which was better quality - slum clearance

Punch magazine — aimed at middle/upper classes

Racketeering — the ‘protection’ from gangs

Rookery — city’s slums

Satirical — exposing/criticising something by poking fun at it - particularly politic

Sensationalised — creating public interest - not necessarily true

Sir Charles Warren — washed off Goulston graffiti and made police too strict

Trial of the Detectives — where the police forced police officers to commit crimes

Use of alcohol — disorientated people so more susceptible to crimes

Workhouses — where you could go to work for a bed