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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (French: Surveiller et punir : Naissance de la prison) is a 1975 book by French philosopher Michel Foucault. It is an analysis of the social and theoretical mechanisms behind the changes that occurred in Western penal systems during the modern age based on historical documents from France.
A comprehensive overview of Foucault's history of the modern Western penal system and its social context. Find summaries, questions, quotes, and study tools for Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison.
Mar 4, 2020 · Discipline and punish : the birth of the prison. by. Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984. Publication date. 1977. Topics. Prisons, Prison discipline, Punishment. Publisher. New York : Pantheon Books. Collection. marygrovecollege; internetarchivebooks; americana; printdisabled. Contributor. Internet Archive. Language. English.
A history of the modern penal system by Michel Foucault, who analyzes how punishment and power relations changed over time. Learn about the development of the carceral system, the panopticon, the delinquent, and the norm.
exemplary mechanics of punishment changes its mechanisms. As a result, justice no longer takes public responsibility for the violence that is bound up with its practice.
Apr 25, 1995 · In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of...
Apr 2, 2003 · Discipline and Punish, published in 1975, is a genealogical study of the development of the “gentler” modern way of imprisoning criminals rather than torturing or killing them. While recognizing the element of genuinely enlightened reform, Foucault particularly emphasizes how such reform also becomes a vehicle of more effective control ...
