In 1798–1799 Bentham lent his services to Patrick Colquhoun in drafting Bills to regularize the new Thames Police Office and to establish a Central Board of Police. While recognizing Colquhoun as the ‘author of the system’, Bentham brought his own utilitarian philosophy to bear on the task, and his arguments shed light on the twin role of licensing in both providing the finance necessary for an expansion of police, and in generating a flow of information for use in deterring, detecting and apprehending criminals. The Police Gazette and the Calendar of Delinquency were to be official publications of the proposed Board of Police, which combined the promulgation of information (thus increasing public knowledge through the understanding) with the effort to mould public opinion (thus influencing the will). Dissemination of facts provided grist to the existing moral sanction’s mill, and facilitated co-operation between the people and the agents of penal law. In reaction to anxiety about contagion from revolutionary France, Bentham also explicitly seeks to guide and direct public opinion, thus connecting his police writings directly with the esoteric elements of indirect legislation.

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边沁关于预防性警察：政策评估中的失职日历和意见操纵中的警察公报

1798 年至 1799 年，边沁协助帕特里克·科尔昆起草法案，使新泰晤士警察局正规化并建立中央警察委员会。在承认 Colquhoun 是“系统的作者”的同时，边沁将他自己的功利主义哲学带入了这项任务，他的论点阐明了许可在提供扩大警察所需的资金和产生用于威慑、侦查和逮捕罪犯的信息流。《警察公报》和《犯罪日历》将成为拟议的警察委员会的官方出版物，它将信息发布（从而通过理解增加公众知识）与努力塑造公众舆论（从而影响意志）相结合。事实的传播为现有的道德制裁提供了支撑，并促进了人民与刑法代理人之间的合作。为了应对革命法国对传染的焦虑，边沁还明确地寻求引导和引导公众舆论，从而将他的警察著作与间接立法的深奥要素直接联系起来。