Crime in Industrialized England DraftIn 1761, at the start of the Industrial Revolution, the population of England was 6.3 million while 80 years later , the population stood at 14.9 million, increasing even with war and emigration. sweat. 1 The Industrial Revolution was a great step forward for Britain, but not everyone benefited from it, especially the poor and the working class. One of the most negative side effects has been poverty, which has increased the number of street vendors on the city's streets. As this number grew, many people complained that they were blocking stores and taking up space, forcing street traders away from country borders, giving them less trade and pushing them even deeper into poverty. 2 With the onset of the Industrial Revolution in the late 1700s came the crime wave of the 1780s, during which urban jails were filled to capacity and the scale of crime drove up levels of policing and prosecution rates. It was just the beginning of a whole new era of penal reform. 3 As the Industrial Revolution progressed throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, its negative effects, such as changing food prices and appalling living and working conditions, led to increased crime rates, especially property crimes, leading to numerous police reforms and measures. Although these changes were not very effective in reducing high crime, they ended up laying the groundwork for more effective reforms in the future. Property crimes were the most common and most frequently prosecuted crime during the Industrial Revolution. The main factor behind this crime was poverty and people's desperation for more money and more possessions. Clothes and food thefts were the most common types...... middle of paper ...... there are so many that only a small group of people have to carry out in the neighborhood they are in responsible, it seems impossible to do all this at the same time as preventing crime and bringing criminals to the main police stations. After the hungry 1940s, in the 19th century, when the benefits of the industrial revolution began to appear, crime rates fell because food prices were more stable and sometimes decreasing and there was a greater quantity of exports of industrial goods leading to more money. (Clive Emsley, Crime Reasoning Notecard, 41.) The police have played a very small role in reducing crime, but the years of carefully thought out policing systems.. lkALKJDSAKLDJ?!?!?!? This signified the end of the Industrial Revolution, although the exact year is much debated, as England continued to industrialize and innovate into the following century..