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

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 ...

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

One of the most influential philosophical works of the 20th century, Discipline and Punish is unsettlingly prescient in our ...

Kelsey McKinney’s book, You Didn’t Hear This From Me, whirls through some good examples of gossip in culture, but overstates ...

In an excerpt from her new book 'You Didn't Hear This From Me,' Kelsey McKinney unpacks some of the biggest internet gossip ...

He said: “Baba’s legacy was that of human capital development through the promotion of Jeremy Bentham’s philosophy of “the promotion of the greatest good of the greatest number.

Recent judicial rulings in India have reignited debates about the fairness and consistency of capital punishment.

The show, created by JJ Bailey, begins in a remote (Wyoming, but wherever) and mysterious (vaguely) subterranean prison designed by somebody who once heard a reference to Jeremy Bentham’s ...

All things being equal, you’d never want to live anywhere near a supermax prison, but there are few patches of narrative real estate more beloved by broadcast television. It’s easy to ...