SOC371H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Criminal Law, Panopticon, Michel Foucault
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David garland: punishment and the technologies of power: The fundamental concepts: power, knowledge, and the body this self-controlled body is brought about by exerting an influence upon what foucault calls the soul which in turn directs behaviour. The body of the condemned becomes a screen upon which sovereign power is protected, a flesh upon which marks of power can be visible engraved. The penal theories of the reformers: they declared punishment be a reflection of the crime itself they also insisted these punishments and their messages should be publicly displayed. This form of distribution was adopted in schoolroom, workshops, hospital: normalizing deviance this method is corrective, to induce conformity. The failure of the prison: foucault suggests two reasons prison persist the prison is deeply rooted in the wider disciplinary practices which he deems characteristic of modern society it carries out certain very precise functions. What interests could be served by the production of delinquency, recidivism, and a criminal milieu.
