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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Semple, Janet
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Clarendon 1993, 1993
Subjects:
Bentham, Jeremy / 1748-1832
Prisons / Great Britain / Design And Construction / History / 18th Century
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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