Discipline and Punish: Difference between revisions

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Foucault started by discussing two different styles of punishment - Damiens the Regicide and Faucher's young prisoners in Paris.
Two processes: (1) disappearance of punishment as a spectacle (**amende honorable**, prisoners in public work). (2) A slackening of the hold on the body.
The way to evaluate the effectiveness of punishment changed: inevitability vs. visible intensity.
Blame is redistributed between conviction vs. execution.
The role of a doctor in execution is interesting - welfare and alleviator of pain. This describes the double process: the disappearance of the spectacle and the elimination of pain.
The more monstrous the crime, the criminal must not see or be seen.
French Revolution endowed the guillotine with a great theatrical ritual. Eventually, the guillotine was placed inside prison walls.
Discussion on the objective of punishment - if not on the body, it must be on the soul. Punish intention rather than action. Establish the casual relationship between the two.
Insanity and judgment - creating subsidiary judicial power for experts, doctors, etc.

It is ugly to be punishable, but there is no glory in punishing.
—Foucault, The body of the condemned

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 * French Revolution endowed the guillotine with a great theatrical ritual. Eventually, the guillotine was placed inside prison walls.
 * Discussion on the objective of punishment - if not on the body, it must be on the soul. Punish intention rather than action. Establish the casual relationship between the two.
+* Insanity and judgment - creating subsidiary judicial power for experts, doctors, etc.
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