caa a22 4500 386327688 CHVBK 20180307111659.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198910 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0953820800000248 doi S0953820800000248 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0953820800000248 Jackson R. V. Australian National University Bentham's Penal Theory in Action: the Case Against New South Wales [Elektronische Daten] [R. V. Jackson] Bentham was an influential thinker with an ‘essentially practical mind'. His influence on British social and political reform, however, was indirect, coming largely after his death and largely through the work of his disciples. Bentham's own attempts to put his ideas directly into practice generally had little effect. He came closest to success in the area of penal policy, winning a contract from Pitt's government in the early 1790s to build and manage a penitentiary that was to be organized on the panopticon principle. Bentham saw the penitentiary as the spearhead of prison reform and as a means of effecting a change from transportation to imprisonment as a punishment for serious crime. While Bentham's use of the panopticon principle itself has attracted most attention in the literature, there was more to his scheme than this. The penitentiary proposals were worked out in great detail, they were a conscious application of his theory of punishment, and they were consistent with and an element of his all-embracing plan of social, political, and constitutional reform. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Utilitas Cambridge University Press 1/2(1989-10), 226-241 0953-8208 1:2<226 1989 1 UTI https://doi.org/10.1017/S0953820800000248 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0953820800000248 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Jackson R. V. Australian National University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Utilitas Cambridge University Press 1/2(1989-10), 226-241 0953-8208 1:2<226 1989 1 UTI CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge