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GCSE media coursework British society in the 1950's wasn't good. The Crime rate was very high as after the war. This is because there were a lot of guns lying around for children to take. Because it was hard to get perfume, alcohol, cigarettes or clothes, they were sold at markets. There were gangs who wanted to be like the gangsters in films they had seen, so they got hold of guns, so they could 'look the part' and quite possibly use them. Many films were made to portray this society such as dance with a stranger(Ruth Ellis) '10 Rillington Place' Christie Murders, to show viewers what life was like after the war, the conditions they lived in and there point of view of what 1950's lifestyle was like. The acknowledged facts of the Christopher Craig and Derek Bentley case are that Derek Bentley was hanged for murder although he didn't actually...

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