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"The evacuation of that scene of wickedness and wretchedness"

By Dr Tim Causer, Senior Research Associate at the Bentham Project, UCL Laws.

Silhouette of Jeremy Bentham

7 November 2019

Publication details

Causer, Tim. (2019) ‘"The evacuation of that scene of wickedness and wretchedness": Jeremy Bentham, the panopticon, and New South Wales, 1802-1803’, Journal of Australian Colonial History, 21, 1-24. Available: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10085007/

Summary 

This paper will examine Bentham’s utilisation of texts in 1802-3 as leverage for the panopticon, by threatening to expose to the public both New South Wales, and how in founding the colony politicians had violated justice and the constitution. 

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