Jeremy Bentham and Australia : convicts, utility and empire /: convicts, utility and empire. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Tim Causer, Margot Finn, Philip Schofield.
• Editors: Causer, Tim; Finn, Margot C; Schofield, Philip, 1958-
• Contents: List of contributors ; List of figures and tables ; Acknowledgements Introduction; Tim Causer Part I. The historical context of Bentham’s writings on Australia 1. Bentham and the criminal-fiscal state; Deborah Oxley 2. Bentham, convict transportation, and the Great Confinement Thesis; Hamish Maxwell-Stewart Part II. Bentham and the theory and practice of transportation to Australia 3. ‘Confinement’, ‘banishment’, and ‘bondage’: contesting practices of exile in the British Empire; Kirsten McKenzie 4. Would Western Australia have met Bentham’s five measures of penal justice?; Katherine Roscoe and Barry Godfrey 5. ‘Inspection, the only effective instrument of reformative management’: Bentham, surveillance, and convict recidivism in early New South Wales; Matthew Allen and David Andrew Roberts 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; Edward Cavanagh 7. ‘The British Constitution Conquered in New South Wales’: Bentham and constitutional reform in early Australia, 1803–24; Anne Brunon-Ernst 8. Jeremy Bentham on South Australia, colonial government, and representative democracy; Philip Schofield 9. ‘Peopling the Country by Unpeopling It’: Jeremy Bentham’s silences on Indigenous Australia; Zoë Laidlaw 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; Honey Dower 11. The panopticon archetype and the Swan River Colony: establishing Fremantle Gaol, 1831–41; Emily Lanman 12. Religion and penal reform in the Australian writings of Jeremy Bentham; Hilary M. Carey 13. The panopticon penitentiary, the convict hulks, and political corruption: Jeremy Bentham’s ‘Third Letter to Lord Pelham’; Tim Causer Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : UCL Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (colour)
• Subjects: 192; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Utilitarianism; Australasian & Pacific history; Colonialism & imperialism; Australia -- In literature; Australia -- Historiography; Influence
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781787358218; 9781787358188; 9781787358225
• Related ISBNs: 9781787358201; 9781787358195
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