Representation In The Uk Essay
Victoria Rushton, 11Monet
Study representations one and two. They are both representations of how effective policing was in late Victorian Britain. How far do these representations differ?
In this essay I will be studying two representations from late Victorian Britain on how effective policing was and how much they differ between each other. I will be covering topics such as, their beats and shifts, how often they worked, and how the representations show how their methods were effective. I think that there were more differences that similarities between them both, and I will be backing my opinion up with quotes and evidence from each source.
Firstly, representation one is based on the typical day of a police officer, their day to day work, …show more content…
I can see that in the second picture (representation1) a constable is breaking up a fight, with the caption “constable summons assistance”. to me, I think this shows that all of the public were threatened by the police and must stick to what they are showing or saying. The source also lists an array of ‘exciting’ tasks that they may have to handle on a day to day basis. Some of these are, “A case of sheep-stealing, a fight or two inside a public house, keeping a watch on a crowd at a prizefight…” This is suggesting that the police never get hurt by any of the incidents that they deal with, they only get ill from too much work, “…with no rest days, which meant that many men became too ill to work.” In representation two however states that the work was “often boring. It was also sometimes dangerous” but instead of seeing the danger in a positive light, it is in a negative light. They were seen as unpopular with the public, because of the things they were being told to do by the sergeants, such as enforcing new levels of public decorum. Also, there is a quote suggesting that the police got hurt if they intervened with an incident, such as a fight. “If there was a fight it was sensible to let them get on with it. In such areas the number of assaults on the police was
Study representations one and two. They are both representations of how effective policing was in late Victorian Britain. How far do these representations differ?
In this essay I will be studying two representations from late Victorian Britain on how effective policing was and how much they differ between each other. I will be covering topics such as, their beats and shifts, how often they worked, and how the representations show how their methods were effective. I think that there were more differences that similarities between them both, and I will be backing my opinion up with quotes and evidence from each source.
Firstly, representation one is based on the typical day of a police officer, their day to day work, …show more content…
I can see that in the second picture (representation1) a constable is breaking up a fight, with the caption “constable summons assistance”. to me, I think this shows that all of the public were threatened by the police and must stick to what they are showing or saying. The source also lists an array of ‘exciting’ tasks that they may have to handle on a day to day basis. Some of these are, “A case of sheep-stealing, a fight or two inside a public house, keeping a watch on a crowd at a prizefight…” This is suggesting that the police never get hurt by any of the incidents that they deal with, they only get ill from too much work, “…with no rest days, which meant that many men became too ill to work.” In representation two however states that the work was “often boring. It was also sometimes dangerous” but instead of seeing the danger in a positive light, it is in a negative light. They were seen as unpopular with the public, because of the things they were being told to do by the sergeants, such as enforcing new levels of public decorum. Also, there is a quote suggesting that the police got hurt if they intervened with an incident, such as a fight. “If there was a fight it was sensible to let them get on with it. In such areas the number of assaults on the police was