Foundations of the Legislative Panopticon: Bentham’s Principles of Morals and Legislation
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Published as Chapter 4 in Foundational Texts in Modern Criminal Law, Markus D. Dubber, ed.
Bentham contributed to the development not only of moral philosophy, jurisprudence, and policy analysis, but also criminal law. This chapter interprets his concepts of law and policy as explicated in his best known work, as foundations for his views on criminal law. These foundational concepts explain his view that criminal law should be expressed in a code consisting of offenses defined by reference to legally protected interests and culpable expectations of injury to those interests. In making this argument, the chapter explores Bentham’s analogy of legislation to architecture and of the utility principle to the foundation of a building.
Publication Date
2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press
City
Oxford
ISBN
9780199673612
First Page
79
Last Page
99
Keywords
Bentham, criminal law, jurisprudence, utilitarianism, legislation, codification
Disciplines
Criminal Law | Jurisprudence | Law | Philosophy
Recommended Citation
Guyora Binder, Foundations of the Legislative Panopticon: Bentham’s Principles of Morals and Legislation in Foundational Texts in Modern Criminal Law 79 (Markus D. Dubber, ed., Oxford University Press 2014)
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