Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Historic Environment: Whitechapel.
A Victorian term used by the middle and upper classes to describe the perceived permanent criminal underclass or 'undeserving poor'.
The Residuum appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for Crime and Punishment in Britain and Whitechapel, especially Historic Environment: Whitechapel and Crime, Policing and the Inner City in Whitechapel.
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