Representation In Britain

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help Study Representations 1, 2 and 3. Choose the one which you think is the best representation of how effective policing was in late Victorian Britain. Representations 1, 2 and 3 all focus on the effectiveness of policing in Victorian Britain. However, their portrayals of Victorian policing are all different in several ways. I personally believe that policing in late Victorian Britain had both positive and negative aspects. For example, I believe the Victorian police were effective, for example with their organisation of their beats. However, I also believe they were ineffective, due to hindrances, such as lack of training and technology. I believe that representation 2 best portrays my view. Therefore…show more content…
On the other hand, representations 1 and 3 tend to lack in this specific detail. For example, representation 2 uses a specific example to support the information it gives in the subject of police payment: “A constable in Northamptonshire protested in 1880 that his pay was less than a farm labourer...” Therefore, these details make the source more detailed and therefore more accurate and complete in its portrayal of the effectiveness of policing late Victorian Britain. Conversely, representation 1 lacks in specific examples, meaning it is less detailed than representation 2. Also, representation 3 is a cartoon, therefore probably has little fact inherent in its representation. Also, it may probably also be a purely fictional account of police work, and therefore has much less fact or details to it compared to representation 2. Therefore, seeing as representation 2 is more detailed than representations 1 and 3, by using specific examples and facts, I believe that it is the best representation of how effective policing was in late Victorian…show more content…
I do not think that this is very relevant to the evaluation of policing in late Victorian Britain because during the Victorian era, fingerprinting was really only evolving, and was not an excessively used method during the Victorian era. In fact, the first time fingerprinting helped solve a case was in 1902, after the Victorian era. Therefore I don’t believe representation 1 gives an effective overview of policing in the Victorian era. Similarly, I believe that representation 3 does not give a good overview of the effectiveness of Victorian policing as a whole, because by the provenance, I can tell that the source is by Punch magazine, published on 8 October 1881. This is only an insight of the police in a specific time in 1881, therefore giving an inaccurate overview of policing in the late Victorian era as a whole. This is because it was 7 years before the most infamous case for the police in the Victorian era: the case of Jack the Ripper. Therefore, by looking at Punch sources in 1888, during the Jack the Ripper case, they become very negative, for example, the satirical cartoon called Blind Man’s Buff published by Punch in 1888. This representation of Blind Man’s Buff contradicts representation 3, as it portrays policing very negatively, whereas
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