What Was The Role Of Punishment In The 1800's

Today’s Youth Justice Board came after the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act which passed to prevent young people from offending and re-offending (Home Office 2009). In the 1800’s when it came to punishment for crimes, there was no distinction between adults and children. People thought that the old forms of punishment, such as transportation and overall humiliation, were too severe for children. Mary Carpenter advocated for education rather than prison which introduced the battle between welfare and justice. After the Second World War, the 1969 Children and Young Persons Act, enhanced the importance of the welfare of children and the legal system began to consider both justice and welfare when sentencing a child.
Soon after, the UK was run by a Conservative Government and experienced a major shift in the economic and political debate. The new Government chose to make public
She wanted to bring back corporal punishment and hanging, which seemed like a step back in history, especially after the liberal changes under Wilson. Her decision to implement the police and criminal evidence act in 1984 was partly in response to the 1981 Brixton riots. Thatcher wanted to introduce an act that restored Britain's faith and trust in the police and give the police a clear idea of what was within the law and what was not. This seemed as an improvement in the discriminatory nature of the stop and search method used by the police, nevertheless crime still rose dramatically in the 80's and on average, 3,5 million crimes were reported in that decade, mostly because of the huge unemployment rates. Thatcher made huge cuts on welfare recipients, so people who were not earning enough money, were even in a worse position, thus leading to even more crime. The changes Thatcher made to the Criminal Justice System undid the positive changes that were made under Wilson (Brake & Hale