Bentham's Prison : A Study of the Panopticon Penitentiary: A Study of the Panopticon PenitentiaryClarendon Press, 8. 7. 1993 - Počet stran: 354 At the end of the eighteenth century, Jeremy Bentham devised a scheme for a prison that he called the panopticon. It soon became an obsession. For twenty years he tried to build it; in the end he failed, but the story of his attempt offers fascinating insights into both Bentham's complex character and the ideas of the period. Basing her analysis on hitherto unexamined manuscripts, Janet Semple chronicles Bentham's dealings with the politicians as he tried to put his plans into practice. She assesses the panopticon in the context of penal philosophy and eighteenth-century punishment and discusses it as an instrument of the modern technology of subjection as revealed and analysed by Foucault. Her entertainingly written study is full of drama: at times it is hilariously funny, at others it approaches tragedy. It illuminates a subject of immense historical importance and which is particularly relevant to modern controversies about penal policy. |
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Jeremy Bentham and the Origins of the Panopticon | 20 |
A View of the Hard Labour Bill and the Penitentiary | 42 |
John Howard and the Origins of the Panopticon | 62 |
The First Phase 17861793 | 95 |
Proposal and Contract I III | 111 |
Proposal and Contract II | 134 |
The Panopticon Bill of 1794 | 166 |
Hanging Wood and Tothill Fields | 192 |
IO A Picture of a Treasury | 218 |
The Final Failure | 254 |
Plans Visions and Utopia | 282 |
Conclusion | 309 |
Appendix History of the War between Jeremy | 324 |
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Strana 330 - Metropolis, explaining the various crimes and misdemeanours which at present are felt as a Pressure upon the Community; and suggesting remedies for their prevention, By a Magistrate (London, 1796).
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