Sir William Blackstone famously said that it is "better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer." The ...

Originally, though, the panopticon was what the British political philosopher Jeremy Bentham proposed as a new model of prison architecture at the end of the 18th century. The design was ingenious. It ...

Worthy of note are Jeremy Bentham’s blog, which provided plenty of details on the Raspberry Pi and the workings of the Secondary Memory Interface (SMI). Beyond that, the Pi Pico documentation ...

Discover the chilling history of the panopticon prison, imagined by Jeremy Bentham as a means to optimize organization and ...

The Haarlem Koepelgevangenis ("dome prison") is just one of three so-called panopticons in the Netherlands: circular prisons with a central watch tower, built in the 19th century and designed to ...

The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Fall 2020), pp. 195-209 (15 pages) At nearly the same moment, Jeremy Bentham and Henry Thornton adopted diametrically opposed approaches to ...

The panopticon, first envisioned by British philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham in the 1700s, is a circular structure with a domed roof and cells arranged in tiers on the circumference.