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

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

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

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

A lawyer and proprietor of Sam Maris University, Supare-Akoko, Ondo State, Mr. Sam Ologunorisa, has said that his late father opted to live in a mud house due to ‘sentimental attachment to the ...

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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 ...

Jeremy Corbyn has been interviewed under caution by police following a pro-Palestinian rally in central London, Sky News understands. The former Labour leader, 75, voluntarily attended a police ...

Wits University senior social anthropology lecturer Dr Hylton White has accused advocate Jeremy Gauntlett SC KC of sexually abusing him when he was a teen in the 1980s. On Wednesday, Gauntlett ...

Respected South African lawyer, Advocate Jeremy Gauntlett, has retired from the bar following historic sexual harassment allegations. This comes after allegations recently when complainant ...

Jeremy Vine has revealed he got his first tattoo after his teenage daughter asked him to get a matching inking over the weekend. The broadcaster shared the unexpected news during a chat with his ...