RT Article
T1 Utilitarianism and Policing in the United States
JF International criminal justice review
VO 31
IS 3
SP 260
OP 262
A1 Nagin, Daniel S.
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1765098149
AB Jeremy Bentham, the father of modern utilitarianism, ranks among the most influential nineteenth century philosophers. Michael Quinn’s (2019) essay, “Bentham on Preventive Policing”, is a reminder that, in addition, Bentham pioneered what we now call “policy analysis.” In so doing, the Quinn essay illustrates that policy analysis, at its best, can also be path breaking scholarship. In this response to Quinn’s excellent essay, I have attempted to demonstrate how Bentham’s revolutionary ideas about social justice remain as important today as they were two centuries ago.
K1 crime/delinquency theory
K1 police processes
K1 law enforcement/security
DO 10.1177/1057567719850244