Jeremy Bentham and Australia : : convicts, utility and empire / / edited by Tim Causer, Margot C. Finn and Philip Schofield.
Jeremy Bentham and Australia is a collection of scholarship inspired by Bentham's writings on Australia. These writings are available for the first time in authoritative form in Panopticon versus New South Wales and other writings on Australia, a volume in The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham...
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| Place / Publishing House: | London, United Kingdom : : UCL Press,, 2022. |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 407 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I, The historical context of Bentham's writings on Australia. 1. Bentham and the criminal-fiscal state ; 2. Bentham, convict transportation, and the Great Confinement Thesis tPart II, Bentham and the theory and practice of transportation to Australia. 3. 'Confinement', 'banishment', and 'bondage': contesting practices of exile in the British Empire ; 4. Would Western Australia have met Bentham's five measures of penal justice? ; 5. 'Inspection, the only effective instrument of reformative management': Bentham, surveillance, and convict recidivism in early New South Wales Part III, The constitutional implications of Bentham's writings on Australia. 6. Jeremy Bentham and the imperial constitution at the Meridian, 1763-1815: legislature, judicature, and office in the Administration of England and the British Empire ; 7. 'The British Constitution Conquered in New South Wales': Bentham and constitutional reform in early Australia, 1803-24 ; 8. Jeremy Bentham on South Australia, colonial government, and representative democracy ; 9. 'Peopling the Country by Unpeopling It': Jeremy Bentham's silences on Indigenous Australia Part IV, Bentham, the panopticon penitentiary scheme, and penal institutions and practices in Australia and Britain. 10. Inverting the panopticon: Van Diemen's Land and the invention of a colonial Pentonville Prison ; 11. The panopticon archetype and the Swan River Colony: establishing Fremantle Gaol, 1831-41 ; 12. Religion and penal reform in the Australian writings of Jeremy Bentham ; 13. The panopticon penitentiary, the convict hulks, and political corruption: Jeremy Bentham's 'Third Letter to Lord Pelham.