Why Did Jack The Ripper Kill Prostitution?

Jack the Ripper chose to kill prostitutes, he only struck at night and he only killed people in London. Jack the Ripper did not think twice about his actions, he had to ask himself should I really do this and what will be my consequences? Jack the Ripper killed most of his victims while they were exiting their wagons or if they were walking in a dark alley. Jack the Ripper covered his victim's mouth so they would not scream. Jack the Ripper was one of the most famous serial killers because of who he killed.

Prostitutes were seen as moral failures that preferred walking the streets in their tatty clothing than going to work a job which encouraged them to improve themselves.Within the social circles of the upper class, conversations about prostitutes were unknown but this changed from 1850 when prostitution became a subject of fierce debate. These debates were argued through the social classes apart from the lower classes where prostitution was a part of everyday life.

A letter sent into the Times from an unknown writer laid the blame for the murders on society, not the killer. The reverend Samuel Barnett who was the bishop of the church in Whitechapel believed that the “public conscience was awakened to the life that these horrors revealed”(Rumbelow 43) suggesting that the murders forced opened the eyes of all them who wanted to keep them shut and ignore that the east end was part of London. One London paper protested that “surely Jack the Ripper is not to be our modern John the baptist”(Emsley 9). During this period women tended to walk in fear of their lives and hatred began to build up towards foreigners and Jewish people. Nobody was sure of how many migrants wandered around the East End, but the East End was where the majority of Jewish people