Subjective Experience of Punishment
Compilation of recent law-review articles providing insight into the subjective experience of punishment.
Topic Collection: Bentham
Jeremy Bentham on punishment, pain, economic analysis, and communicating with prisoners.
Millbank Penitentiary Officials’ Views on Suppressing Prisoners’ Communication
Officials of Millbank Penitientiary, a prominent prison opened in 1821, strongly advocated allowing prisoners to communicate with their family and friends.
Punishment at Foundations of Economic Analysis
Economic analysis from its foundations has devalued prisoners’ communication with family and friends.
Leading 18th-Century Works on Punishment
Books published in the 18th century, widely known in the public sphere in England during that century, and discussing lawful punishment in detail.
Beccaria’s and Bentham’s Analysis of Prisoners’ Communication
Beccaria and Bentham, proto-economists who wrote extensively on crime and punishment, contributed little to regulating prisoners’ communication.
The Rhetoric of the Greatest Happiness of the Greatest Number
Beccaria’s and Bentham’s happiness maximization seems to have been fundamentally exhortative rather than consequentially calculative.
Economic Analysis Has Promoted Communicative Pain
The imposition of pain and the suppression of communication have been central to economic analysis from its foundations.
Bentham’s Rhetorical Sophistication
Jeremy Bentham was a rhetorically sophisticated writer, not a socially obtuse utilitarian.
Jeremy Bentham’s Intellectual Achievement
Jeremy Bentham is one of the most important figures in Western intellectual history.
Rationale of Punishment Doesn’t Translate Dumont
Bentham editors and scholars have inaccurately described The Rationale of Punishment as a translation of Dumont’s Théorie des Peines et des Récompenses.
Bentham on Punishment Through Dumont and Smith
Texts on communication with prisoners in Rationale of Punishment probably came directly from a manuscript folio that Bentham wrote about 1778.
Editing Bentham’s Manuscripts on Punishment
The Rationale of Punishment (1830) better indicates Bentham’s writing on punishment than does Dumont’s Théorie des Peines et des Récompenses (1811).
Source-Critical Analysis: Bentham on Communicating with Prisoners
The Rationale of Punishment, not Dumont’s Théorie des Peines et des Récompenses, contains Bentham’s original text on communicating with prisoners.
Dating Bentham’s Texts in the Rationale of Punishment
Although The Rationale of Punishment was first published in 1830, Jeremy Bentham wrote its texts on communicating with prisoners about 1778.
Bentham’s Symbolic Ideas for Prison Facades
Jeremy Bentham proposed decorating prison facades with a wolf, fox, monkey, and tiger to indicate the problem of crime.
Relatively New Bentham Texts in the Rationale of Punishment
The Rationale of Punishment includes some text apparently from Bentham’s hand in 1810 or later.
Studying Bentham on Punishment
Richard Smith’s edition of Bentham on punishment, The Rationale of Punishment, provides the most accurate published record of Bentham’s original writing.
Bentham Manuscript Folios on Punishment
University College London holds about a thousand manuscript folios that Jeremy Bentham wrote about punishment.