Jeremy Bentham’s ideas on punishment are famous. Every criminology student learns about Bentham, and every criminologist contends with him, as advocate or opponent. This discourse concerns his ideas about punishment, namely with respect to legislation and the panopticon. Yet, scholars and students are generally ignorant of Bentham’s ideas on police. Hitherto, these ideas have been largely unknowable. Now, thanks to UCL’s Bentham Project, these ideas are public. Jeremy Bentham on Police celebrates this achievement by exploring the story of Bentham’s writings on police and considering their relevance to the past, present and future of criminology. After Scott Jacques introduces the book, the Director of the Bentham Project, Philip Schofield, describes and explains how it works. Then Michael Quinn, who brought together Bentham’s writings on police, delves into the personal and socio-historical background in which they were created. An extract follows, representing the most (criminologically-)relevant passages from Bentham’s police writings. Finally, a rich variety of scholars offer their thoughts on what those writings mean for criminology. These contributions come from Anthony A. Braga, Ronald Clarke, David J. Cox, Stephen Douglas, Stephen Engelmann, G. Geltner, Joel F. Harrington, Jonathan Jacobs, Paul Knepper, Gloria Laycock, Gary T. Marx, Daniel S. Nagin, Graeme R. Newman, Pat O’Malley, Eric L. Piza, Kim Rossmo, Lucia Summers and Dean Wilson.
Author(s): Scott Jacques, Philip Schofield
Edition: 1
Publisher: UCL Press
Year: 2021
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 259
Tags: Bentham, Jeremy: 1748-1832: Criticism And Interpretation; Police: Philosophy; Criminology: History
Cover
Half-title
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Table of contents
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Part I: Chapters
1. The Story of Jeremy Bentham on Police: Bridging the Bentham Project to Criminology
The Bentham Project
Bentham on police
Quinn on Bentham on police
Criminologists on Bentham on police
Freeing Bentham on police
UCL Press
Copyright conflict
From the past to the future
Notes
References
2. Jeremy Bentham, the Bentham Project and The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham
The need for an authoritative Bentham edition
The establishment of the Bentham Project
The construction of the text
The printed critical edition in the digital age
Open access and funding
Notes
References
3. Bentham on Preventive Police: The Calendar of Delinquency in Evaluation of Policy, and the Police Gazette in Manipulation of Opinion
Police, policy and indirect legislation
Police and prevention in Bentham’s writings
The police writings: Colquhoun or Bentham?
The Calendar of Delinquency and moral calculation
and moral calculation
The ‘moralizing Police Gazette’
Notes
References
Part II: Extracts
4. Extracts from Jeremy Bentham’s Board-of-Police Bill
Introduction
Introductory Observations relative to the Board-of-Police Bill
A Bill For the establishment of a Board of Police, and for the suppression of divers Offices; —or else,
General Preamble.
Part I. Licentiandi
Part II. Board
Part V. Penalties and Procedure
Part VI. Gazette and Calendar &c.
Notes to the Police Bill: containing Reasons, Precedents, and other Elucidations
Part I. Licence Duties
Part II. Board
Part VI. Gazette and Calendar &c.
Part III: Comments
The Influence of Bentham on the Development of Focused Deterrence
Incorporating utilitarianism
Optimizing the influence of sanctions
Concluding thoughts
References
Regulating Crime and the International Crime Drop
References
‘An Attention to Domestic Quiet’: A Comparative Commentary on the Originality or Otherwise of Bentham’s Views and Writings on Preventive Police and the Police Gazette
Notes
References
Bentham’s Virtue
References
On Policing Before Bentham: Differences in Degree and Differences in Kind
Notes
References
Bentham’s England and the Longue Durée of Preventive Policing
Bentham on the Complex Role of Police
References
Bentham and Historical Criminology
References
Bentham: The First Crime Scientist?
Introduction
Key ideas from Bentham and colleagues
A calendar of delinquency
The science of policing
The importance of prevention
The current manifestation of Bentham’s ideas
Conclusions
References
Bentham on Modern Social Control: Prescient, Clairvoyant and More
Communication and the moral order
Soft control
The printing press, moral suasion and propaganda
Transparency can also control the governors
Social organization and crime
Using data to set policy
Local contexts: The situational level
Notes
References
Utilitarianism and Policing in the US
References
Bentham in the Weeds
References
A Genealogy of Bentham’s Preventive Policing
Winds of change
References
Bentham on Crime Analysis and Evidence-Based Policing
Bentham’s writings on preventive police
References
Bentham and the Philosophical Nature of Preventive Policing
References
Bentham in the Colonies
References
Index
