Jacques, Scott and Schofield, Philip (Eds).
(2021)
Jeremy Bentham on Police: The unknown story and what it means for criminology.
[Book].
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
Jeremy Bentham’s ideas on punishment are famous. Every criminology student learns about Bentham, and every criminologist contends with him, as advocate or opponent. This discourse concerns his ideas about punishment, namely with respect to legislation and the panopticon. Yet, scholars and students are generally ignorant of Bentham’s ideas on police. Hitherto, these ideas have been largely unknowable. Now, thanks to UCL’s Bentham Project, these ideas are public. Jeremy Bentham on Police celebrates this achievement by exploring the story of Bentham’s writings on police and considering their relevance to the past, present and future of criminology. After Scott Jacques introduces the book, the Director of the Bentham Project, Philip Schofield, describes and explains how it works. Then Michael Quinn, who brought together Bentham’s writings on police, delves into the personal and socio-historical background in which they were created. An extract follows, representing the most (criminologically-)relevant passages from Bentham’s police writings. Finally, a rich variety of scholars offer their thoughts on what those writings mean for criminology. These contributions come from Anthony A. Braga, Ronald Clarke, David J. Cox, Stephen Douglas, Stephen Engelmann, G. Geltner, Joel F. Harrington, Jonathan Jacobs, Paul Knepper, Gloria Laycock, Gary T. Marx, Daniel S. Nagin, Graeme R. Newman, Pat O’Malley, Eric L. Piza, Kim Rossmo, Lucia Summers and Dean Wilson.
Type: | Book |
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Title: | Jeremy Bentham on Police: The unknown story and what it means for criminology |
ISBN-13: | 9781787356177 |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781787356177 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787356177 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | Text © Contributors, 2021 Collection © Editors, 2021 Part II: Extracts © the Bentham Committee, UCL, 2021 This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial- Share-Alike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), https://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same licence as the original. |
Keywords: | Jeremy Bentham, policing, criminology, philosophy |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Laws UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Laws > The Bentham Project |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10134548 |
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