Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
ISBN-10
0241386012
ISBN-13
9780241386019
Category
Prison discipline
Pages
352
Language
English
Published
2020-04-09
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Author
Michel Foucault

Description

In the Middle Ages there were gaols and dungeons, but punishment was for the most part a spectacle. In this provocative work, Michel Foucault argues that the development of the Western system of prisons, police and legal hierarchies have merely shifted the focus of social control from our bodies to our souls.

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