Bentham's prison a study of the panopticon penitentiary
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 subjectio...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Clarendon
1993, 1993
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| Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| 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 |
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| Physical Description: | 344 p. |
| ISBN: | 9780191684074 0191684074 |