Executions were common punishment with the purpose of drawing in a crowd to encourage others to not commit the same crimes and though some crimes saw softer punishments in the Hanoverian period, such as homosexuality in 1807, then in the 1830s executions began to move toward executions being reserved for murderers by reduced sentencing. However, as the Industrial Revolution began crime rates grew and with that punishment of not only the poor adults but minors as well. This is historiographically significant because there is a disagreement of the reason for the increase of juvenile prosecution between “rapid migration, social dislocation and family breakdown that sometimes accompanied urbanization and industrialization.” It can specifically be said that the criminalization of minors in cities was specifically of the lower working class due to an influx of people that led to an “overcrowded labor market.” Furthermore, in the 1820s there were different averages of indicted minors, however all statistics were deemed high. Some had shown as high as 48 percent in larger cities. The foundation of this society was reason, virtue, and obedience from the heads of household to their servants, any unscrupulous deeds of the working class reflected directly on the employers. However, with the Industrial Revolution, it was undeniable to say that the era was changing. Still, these laws could be perceived as a desire to maintain gentility, which in fact echoed for the mantra of a roughly two-hundred-year standard that was set prior to the Hanoverian era. That standard of aristocracy required a code of “superior gracefulness” and scholarship in high society’s lifestyle such as: “manners, speech, clothes, architecture, furniture, landscape gardening” and this was a lifestyle undoubtedly challenged by the Industrial Revolution. Despite capital punishment
Executions were common punishment with the purpose of drawing in a crowd to encourage others to not commit the same crimes and though some crimes saw softer punishments in the Hanoverian period, such as homosexuality in 1807, then in the 1830s executions began to move toward executions being reserved for murderers by reduced sentencing. However, as the Industrial Revolution began crime rates grew and with that punishment of not only the poor adults but minors as well. This is historiographically significant because there is a disagreement of the reason for the increase of juvenile prosecution between “rapid migration, social dislocation and family breakdown that sometimes accompanied urbanization and industrialization.” It can specifically be said that the criminalization of minors in cities was specifically of the lower working class due to an influx of people that led to an “overcrowded labor market.” Furthermore, in the 1820s there were different averages of indicted minors, however all statistics were deemed high. Some had shown as high as 48 percent in larger cities. The foundation of this society was reason, virtue, and obedience from the heads of household to their servants, any unscrupulous deeds of the working class reflected directly on the employers. However, with the Industrial Revolution, it was undeniable to say that the era was changing. Still, these laws could be perceived as a desire to maintain gentility, which in fact echoed for the mantra of a roughly two-hundred-year standard that was set prior to the Hanoverian era. That standard of aristocracy required a code of “superior gracefulness” and scholarship in high society’s lifestyle such as: “manners, speech, clothes, architecture, furniture, landscape gardening” and this was a lifestyle undoubtedly challenged by the Industrial Revolution. Despite capital punishment