How Did The Cause Of Crime Increase During The 19th Century

Why did criminal activity continue to rise even though they knew that the punishments were so harsh? Was poverty the cause of crime to increase during the 19th century or was alcohol the reason why the crime activity increased. This paper will be talking about the punishments being humane or inhumane, was poverty the cause of the increase in criminal activity, or was it alcoholism that caused the criminal activity to increase. Education also influences criminal activity such as making it decrease.
The punishment for criminals in 19th century were so harsh that you would think that the crime rate would have decreased. The punishment varied depending on gender, women were confined to solitary confinement. Solitary confinement is where you would isolate the prisoner in another cell for punishment (Harvey 88 and Burney 163). Men were beaten by
The first way that education affected the crime rate is reduced the amount of time available for criminal activity to those who were enrolled in school. Another way that schooling affected the criminal activity is it enhanced human capital skills in legitimate, or legal, activities more than illegal ones. In that case over time we would observe a rising proportion of older criminals among all the offenders. They were unable to benefit from the improved schooling opportunities because you had to be a certain age to be able benefit from the improved schooling opportunities to In England and Wales in second half of the 19th century the crime rate reduced partially do to the rapid spread of education. The Elementary Education Act of 1870 resulted in 96,601 parents being brought before courts in the first year, allegedly half a million were prosecuted in the first twenty years of the legislation. Strong measures may be quite effective at keeping children in school that might become Juvenile offenders. Over time the Juvenile offender's criminal activity declined. (Wong