The Classical Thinkers

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Bentham's Panopticon
http://www.bestweb.net/~bobby375/home12.htm
Interesting overview of the proposed prison architecture offered by one of the most influential of the "classical criminologists."

 

Classical School Criminology Page
http://www.d.umn.edu/~jhamlin1/classical.html
Summary of "classical criminology" from a sociological perspective.

Neo-Classical Criminology article: "No Future for the Prison"
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/apsocsci/positive/nfftp.htm
Text of an article critical of prisons as a solution to crime.

 

The Death Penalty Information Center
http://www.essential.org/dpic
Extensive collection of information maintained by an advocacy group opposed to the death penalty.

Death Penalty News
http://www.smu.edu/~deathpen
Regularly updated site about pending death penalty cases and death penalty data.   Links to other death penalty related sites.

(What is) The Code of Hammurabi?
http://snu.edu/syllabi/history/s97projects/hamurabi
Overview of the Code of Hammurabi, the King who ruled Mesopotamia from 1792 to 1750 BC, and the social context of his set of laws.

The Code of Hammurabi
http://www.achilles.net/~sal/hammurabi_code1.html#zamama1
Text of this most ancient of surviving written legal codes.

Hammurabi Glossary
http://www.achilles.net/~sal/codeind1.html
Glossary for the Code of Hammurabi (see above).

An Overview of Common Law
http://www.ptialaska.net/~dclark/commnlaw.html
Excellent summary of the history and development of the legal system that forms the traditions of U.S. and many other English-speaking countries.

 

The Magna Carta
http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/211mc.html

History and Text

Spirit Possession as a Cause of Crime
http://www.dissociation.com/index/published/POSTRIAL.TXT
Text of an article from the American Journal of Forensic Psychiatry.

John Stuart Mill and Utilitarianism
http://www.utilitarianism.com/mill1.htm
Text of the book by the great Utilitarian philosopher and scholar.

Thomas Hobbes
http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/treasures/history/hobbes.html
Text of a brief article about Hobbes and his writings.

Jean Jacques Rousseau
http://www.wabash.edu/Rousseau/WorksonWeb.html
Links to Rousseau texts on the web.

The Elements of Law Natural and Politic by Thomas Hobbes (1640)
http://www.knuten.liu.se/~bjoch509/works/hobbes/elements.txt
Text of the Hobbes manuscript.

John Locke
http://www.nobunaga.demon.co.uk/htm/locke.htm
Overview of the thoughts of this important philosopher.

The Virtual Panopticon
http://sims.berkeley.edu/impact/f96/Projects/dengberg
Interesting application of Jeremy Bentham's Panoptican prison to a virtual reality world.

Models Of Dangerousness: A Cross Jurisdictional Review Of Dangerousness
http://www.sgc.gc.ca/epub/corr/e199402/e199402.htm
(Once there, download the file for reading.)

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