Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon
Jeremy Bentham's proposed panopticon workhouse or industry house for up to 2000 inmates. The scheme, published in Bentham's 1812 work Pauper Management Improved, was originally devised for housing prisoners. It comprised a ring doughnut shaped building with a central control post
Picture No
10512864
Media ID
47553768
Size
9100px x 5003px
(11.9MB)
Credit
Mary Evans/Peter Higginbotham Collection
Source
Illustration from Pauper Management Improved'
Date
1812
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1812 Benthams Comprised Devised Doughnut Improved Inmates Management Panopticon Pauper Proposed Scheme
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