The Golden Lands: 1850–68

Peel, Mark; Twomey, Christina

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“…19 Cities and towns placed poor and rich cheek-by-jowl: growing supplies of valuable moveable objects found ready pawnbrokers and second-hand markets in a heaving 'economy of makeshifts'. 20 The Glorious Revolution further empowered an elite of owners to craft a Bloody Code to defend their handkerchiefs from nimble fingers. Cashed up, Britain could now expand its reach and become a criminal fiscal state.…”

Section: Note To the Readermentioning

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“…His 1787 plan for a panopticon would have housed about 224 inmates. 20 The 1791 revised plan expanded the number of floors from four to six but reduced the number of cells on each floor to just 24. This version could accommodate only 144 prisoners if solitary confinement was employed.…”

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“…19 As Bentham put it succinctly: 'When transportation was to America, the bondage might be bought off or begged off'. 20 This aspect of what Bentham called 'the old transportation system' was iniquitous in his view. The punishment 'upon the face of the letter of the law', as he argued in his first 'Letter to Lord Pelham', was 'banishment'.…”

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“…According to the British historian of policing, Arthur Haydon, 'The settlements which quickly sprang up around new townships like Fremantle (Wallyalup) were of the nature of an experiment, a utopian scheme in fact, and like others of its kind, it contained many defects'. 20 Not least of these 'defects' was opposition from the traditional owners of the land directed towards the colonists, as more and more of their homeland was appropriated. As early as 1830, diarist and barrister George Moore wrote that he feared violent conflict unless the Noongar community were 'removed wholesale to some island'.…”

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“…If they were allowed to return to the British Isles, then it would undermine the security supposedly afforded by having deported them in the first place, but if they were made to remain in New South Wales, they would be, as he put it in the second panopticon 'Postscript', the victims of 'false-banishment for life'. 20 Bentham thought transportation to New South Wales posed an almost insurmountable conundrum: 'Take away the injustice & you take away the security'. 21 As a scheme of colonization, Bentham expressed his doubts about the economic advantages of colonies and colony-holding, which he subsequently expanded upon in December 1792 and January 1793 in 'Jeremy Bentham to the National Convention of France' (which he later published in 1830 as Emancipate Your Colonies!).…”

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Jeremy Bentham and Australia: Convicts, utility and empire

2022

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Jeremy Bentham and Australia is a collection of scholarship inspired by Bentham’s writings on Australia. These writings are available for the first time in authoritative form in Panopticon versus New South Wales and other writings on Australia, a volume in The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham published by UCL Press. In the present collection, a distinguished group of authors reflect on Bentham’s Australian writings, making original contributions to existing debates and setting agendas for future ones. In the first part of the collection, the works are placed in their historical contexts, while the second part provides a critical assessment of the historical accuracy and plausibility of Bentham’s arguments against transportation from the British Isles. In the third part, attention turns to Bentham’s claim that New South Wales had been illegally founded and to the imperial and colonial constitutional ramifications of that claim. Here, authors also discuss Bentham’s work of 1831 in which he supports the establishment of a free colony on the southern coast of Australia. In the final part, authors shed light on the history of Bentham’s panopticon penitentiary scheme, his views on the punishment and reform of criminals and what role, if any, religion had to play in that regard, and discuss apparently panopticon-inspired institutions built in the Australian colonies. This collection will appeal to readers interested in Bentham’s life and thought, the history of transportation from the British Isles, and of British penal policy more generally, colonial and imperial history, Indigenous history, legal and constitutional history, and religious history.

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