{"id":400,"date":"2025-07-21T13:44:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/?p=400"},"modified":"2025-08-12T21:02:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T01:02:00","slug":"video-jeremy-benthams-perfect-prison-the-panopticon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/video-jeremy-benthams-perfect-prison-the-panopticon\/","title":{"rendered":"Video | &#8220;Jeremy Bentham&#8217;s &#8216;Perfect&#8217; Prison | The Panopticon&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">This video introduces Jeremy Bentham\u2019s Panopticon as a prison design rooted in his utilitarian philosophy, aiming to maximize control and minimize harm through constant surveillance. For criminology students, it illustrates how Bentham believed behavior could be regulated by making individuals feel they are always being watched, even if they are not. The Panopticon reflects Bentham\u2019s broader ideas about rationality, deterrence, and the role of punishment in promoting the greatest good. It serves as a foundation for exploring surveillance, control, and the ethical limits of state power in criminal justice systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jeremy Bentham\u2019s \u2018perfect\u2019 prison | The Panopticon\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uO4hJVYEJ6I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video introduces Jeremy Bentham\u2019s Panopticon as a prison design rooted in his utilitarian philosophy, aiming to maximize control and minimize harm through constant surveillance. For criminology students, it illustrates how Bentham believed behavior could be regulated by making individuals feel they are always being watched, even if they are not. The Panopticon reflects Bentham\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-early-classical-theories","8":"category-video","9":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":882,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}