Phantom architecture: Jeremy Bentham's haunted and haunting panopticon

Drawing upon Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology and the nascent field ghost criminology, this article explores spectrality Jeremy Bentham's panopticon. This frames never constructed building as an example ‘phantom architecture’. It can be seen both haunted haunting. Here, we use Beaumont’s ‘architectural parallax’ to examine that is ‘out-of-joint’. at once past, yet profoundly present, well prefiguring future. We turn first spectral presence abandoned designed by Samuel Bentham, Jeremy's brother. see how Samuel's experiences in Krichev 1780s left traces prison design brothers would work upon. saw them develop architecture hold its centre a surveillant ‘entity’ haunt those being observed building's periphery. Having explored ‘no longer’, ‘not yet’ panopticon has come inspirit thought architectural practice. In tracing these varied spectralities, within panopticon, reveal enduring impact on criminological imagination.