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Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison

By Michel Foucault

Book information

Year
1991
ISBN
014013722X, 9780713910407, 9780679752554, 9780394727677, 9780394499420, 9780140551976, 9780140137224, 0140551972, 0394499425, 0394727673, 0679752552, 0713910402
LCC
HV8666
Open Library ID
OL20615925M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
66 MB (69660638 bytes)
Pages
353\353
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In the Middle Ages there were gaols and dungeons, but punishment was for the most part a spectacle. The economic changes and growing popular dissent of the 18th century made necessary a more systematic control over the individual members of society, and this in effect meant a change from punishment, which chastised the body, to reform, which touched the soul. Foucault shows the development of the Western system of prisons, police organizations, administrative and legal hierarchies for social control - and the growth of disciplinary society as a whole. He also reveals that between school, factories, barracks and hospitals all share a common organization, in which it is possible to control the use of an individual's time and space hour by hour.

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