Saturday, August 3, 2019
Inside the Mind of a Victorian Policeman Essays -- Victorian Era
Devoid of the Domestic: Inside the Mind of a Victorian Policeman ââ¬Å"For many early Victorians, policing was a new and low-status occupation. Few men became policeman for positive reasons" (Taylor 49). Construction of the Typical Police Officer Several criteria apply to the Victorian police officer: * Policemen were typically involved in trade and were part of the lower middle class o ââ¬Å"In Staffordshire, miners, shoemakers, brickmakers, moulders, puddlers, potters, engine drivers and even a printer joined the forceâ⬠(Taylor 48). o The occupational background of the police officer, while quite diverse, composed of a large portion of agricultural laborers (48). This is due to industrialization and mechanization of agriculture during the Victorian Era; fewer rural laborers were needed. * Policemen were typically young: ââ¬Å"In the Metropolitan Police the mean age of recruits fell to twenty-four in 1850â⬠(Taylor 49). * Policemen were typically single: ââ¬Å"Many forces quite explicitly stated in their recuiting campaigns that married men need n...
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