1. Recap
What conditions in the East End contributed to Jack the Ripper’s murders? In pairs, choose two factors each and explain how they contributed:
Pollution
Poverty
City layout
Immigration
Prostitution

2. Watch this short video, containing the words of Jacob Adler, a resident of the East End in the 1880s. How does he describe the East End?

3. Was Jack Unusual?
Study the account of crime in London from How many crimes were committed? What do you predict about murder?
Crime
No. of arrests
Drunkenness
18,000
Unlawful possession of goods
8,160
Simple larceny
7,021
Common assault
6,637
Assaults on police
2,194
Prostitution
4,303
Murder

4. Was Jack Unusual?
Study the account of crime in London from How many crimes were committed? What do you predict about murder?
Crime
No. of arrests
Drunkenness
18,000
Unlawful possession of goods
8,160
Simple larceny
7,021
Common assault
6,637
Assaults on police
2,194
Prostitution
4,303
Murder
235

5. Want to find out more? Visit www.jack-the-ripper.org
Media Frenzy
Want to find out more? Visit
Study the information about how East End crime was reported in the press:
What impact did newspaper coverage have on Jewish immigrants?
Explain why Jack the Ripper got so much attention – you might want to think about newspapers and members of parliament
Was Jack the Ripper an unusual East End criminal?
Grade 9 Thinking: Why did Madame Tussauds waxworks museum include so many murderers?

6. Plenary
How unusual were the Ripper murders? Do you think newspapers were right to report his murders so hysterically?

7. “In 1856 in the most common parts of London 73,240 persons were taken into custody, of whom 45,941 were males, and 27,209 females; 18,000 of the apprehensions were on account of drunkenness, 8160 for unlawful possession of goods, 7021 for simple larceny, 6763 for common assaults, 2194 for assaults on the police; 4303 women were taken into custody as prostitutes.”
J. Ewing Ritchie, a social reformer, in his report The Night Side of London published in 1858
“In 1856 in the most common parts of London 73,240 persons were taken into custody, of whom 45,941 were males, and 27,209 females; 18,000 of the apprehensions were on account of drunkenness, 8160 for unlawful possession of goods, 7021 for simple larceny, 6763 for common assaults, 2194 for assaults on the police; 4303 women were taken into custody as prostitutes.”
J. Ewing Ritchie, a social reformer, in his report The Night Side of London published in 1858
“In 1856 in the most common parts of London 73,240 persons were taken into custody, of whom 45,941 were males, and 27,209 females; 18,000 of the apprehensions were on account of drunkenness, 8160 for unlawful possession of goods, 7021 for simple larceny, 6763 for common assaults, 2194 for assaults on the police; 4303 women were taken into custody as prostitutes.”
J. Ewing Ritchie, a social reformer, in his report The Night Side of London published in 1858
“In 1856 in the most common parts of London 73,240 persons were taken into custody, of whom 45,941 were males, and 27,209 females; 18,000 of the apprehensions were on account of drunkenness, 8160 for unlawful possession of goods, 7021 for simple larceny, 6763 for common assaults, 2194 for assaults on the police; 4303 women were taken into custody as prostitutes.”
J. Ewing Ritchie, a social reformer, in his report The Night Side of London published in 1858
“In 1856 in the most common parts of London 73,240 persons were taken into custody, of whom 45,941 were males, and 27,209 females; 18,000 of the apprehensions were on account of drunkenness, 8160 for unlawful possession of goods, 7021 for simple larceny, 6763 for common assaults, 2194 for assaults on the police; 4303 women were taken into custody as prostitutes.”
J. Ewing Ritchie, a social reformer, in his report The Night Side of London published in 1858
“In 1856 in the most common parts of London 73,240 persons were taken into custody, of whom 45,941 were males, and 27,209 females; 18,000 of the apprehensions were on account of drunkenness, 8160 for unlawful possession of goods, 7021 for simple larceny, 6763 for common assaults, 2194 for assaults on the police; 4303 women were taken into custody as prostitutes.”
J. Ewing Ritchie, a social reformer, in his report The Night Side of London published in 1858