Main entry:

Semple, Janet.

Title & Author:

Bentham's prison : a study of the panopticon penitentiary / Janet Semple.

Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

Description:

344 pages : portrait ; 22 cm

Restrictions:

Online version licensed for access by U. of T. users.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-235) and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. Jeremy Bentham and the Origins of the Panopticon -- 3. A View of the Hard Labour Bill and the Penitentiary Act of 1779 -- 4. John Howard and the Origins of the Panopticon -- 5. The First Phase, 1786-1793 -- 6. Proposal and Contract I -- 7. Proposal and Contract II -- 8. The Panopticon Bill of 1794 -- 9. Hanging Wood and Tothill Fields -- 10. A Picture of a Treasury -- 11. The Final Failure -- 12. Plans, Visions, and Utopia -- 13. Conclusion -- Appendix 'History of the War between Jeremy Bentham and George III by one of the Belligerents'.
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Dust jacket.

Summary:

This title tells the story of Jeremy Bentham's dealings with the politicians as he tried to get his model prison (panopticon) built, assesses the panopticon in the context of penal philosophy and of 18th-century punishment, and discusses it as an instrument of the modern technology of subjection.

Resources:
1993.
Table of contents
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0198273878
9780198273875
9786610810932
6610810931

Subject:

Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832.
Bentham, Jeremy 1748-1832
Bentham, Jeremy.
Gefängnis Leopoldov
Prisons Great Britain Design and construction History 18th century.
Prisons Grande-Bretagne Conception et construction Histoire 18e siècle.
Prisons Design and construction.
Gefängnisbau
Planung
Strafrechtstheorie
Gefängnis
Gevangenissen.
Great Britain.
Großbritannien
Prisons
England

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 110340
Call No.: ID PLS HV8811.S46; ID:94-B501
Status: Available