TY - CHAP
T1 - Convict surveillance and reform in theory and practice
T2 - Jeremy Bentham versus New South Wales
AU - Allen, Matthew
PY - 2021/7/28
Y1 - 2021/7/28
N2 - Jeremy Bentham is famous as a pioneer of modern surveillance, most notably for his panopticon, a circular prison with a central tower that ensured inmates were always watched. This chapter uses Bentham’s critique to historicise his theory of reformative surveillance, contrasting it with contemporary surveillance practices in early New South Wales (NSW). It argues that Bentham misunderstood the significance of surveillance in the penal colony and failed to appreciate the difference between surveillance in theory and practice. In 1802, Bentham addressed a series of public letters to the Home Secretary, Lord Pelham, which sought to demonstrate that transportation was a flawed means of punishing convicts and that NSW was illegally governed.
AB - Jeremy Bentham is famous as a pioneer of modern surveillance, most notably for his panopticon, a circular prison with a central tower that ensured inmates were always watched. This chapter uses Bentham’s critique to historicise his theory of reformative surveillance, contrasting it with contemporary surveillance practices in early New South Wales (NSW). It argues that Bentham misunderstood the significance of surveillance in the penal colony and failed to appreciate the difference between surveillance in theory and practice. In 1802, Bentham addressed a series of public letters to the Home Secretary, Lord Pelham, which sought to demonstrate that transportation was a flawed means of punishing convicts and that NSW was illegally governed.
UR - https://www.routledge.com/Histories-of-Surveillance-from-Antiquity-to-the-Digital-Era-The-Eyes-and/Marklund-Skouvig/p/book/9780367340698
UR - http://10.4324/9780429323751
U2 - 10.4324/9780429323751
DO - 10.4324/9780429323751
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9780429323751
SN - 9780367340698
SN - 9781032021539
T3 - Routledge Studies in Modern History
SP - 70
EP - 86
BT - Histories of Surveillance from Antiquity to the Digital Era The Eyes and Ears of Power
A2 - Marklund, null
A2 - Andreas, null
A2 - Skouvig, null
A2 - Laura, null
PB - Routledge
CY - London, United Kingdom
ER -