What Is Crime Like In The 18th Century

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Crime and punishment was not as easy or laid back in the 18th century as punishment is now days. This paper will tell you alil about how the crime happened and what it was like in the 1800s. In the 18th century, a lot of the cities or towns had not made any law enforcement. In the 1800s, people were beginning to notice that crime was starting to grow a little bit. They believed that whoever did the crime should get punished for what they did. When the people did the crimes and went to prison they were punished so horribly that it was just about considered too much. The citizens of the towns didn't really get the point of the difference in punishment and torture. The people that were around during this time were starting to wonder if the people getting punished were right or …show more content…

Back in the late 18th century was you always had to have the fear in your head that you were gonna be the next one to get punished. Back in that time, the law was a lot different then it is now. During the 1800s people thought that the punishment of eye for an eye was a wonderful punishment. The people that were around then were weirded out with how people were being treated and didn't know how to take the extent of the punishments, especially since it was almost torture. One of the last points that's gonna be shown here today is why the legal situation was so bad. There was no law enforcement in the 1800s of any kind so people would go out and do the stupid things that were illegal because they knew there was no one to do anything about it. The homeless people were another problem that arose during the 1800s because they knew that if they did anything illegal and got caught then they would have a place to stay. The laws were different everywhere you went. Not only were the punishments torture, but the conditions of the jails were nasty and full of illness and

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