Jeremy Bentham and Australia
Convicts, utility and empire
Edited by Tim Causer, Margot Finn, and Philip Schofield
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
Format: Paperback
Size: 234 × 156 mm
422 Pages
16 colour illustrations
Copyright: © 2022
ISBN: 9781787358195
Publication: April 28, 2022