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Bentham's Prison: A Study of the Panopticon Penitentiary Semple, Janet (late Research Fellow, Bentham Project, late Research Fellow, Bentham Project, University College London)
Bentham's Prison: A Study of the Panopticon Penitentiary
Semple, Janet (late Research Fellow, Bentham Project, late Research Fellow, Bentham Project, University College London)
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.
354 pages, frontispiece, 2 line figures, bibliography
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | August 26, 1993 |
| ISBN13 | 9780198273875 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 354 |
| Dimensions | 143 × 225 × 24 mm · 603 g |
| Language | English |