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{{Quote|text=It is ugly to be punishable, but there is no glory in punishing.|sign=Foucault|source=The body of the condemned}}
{{Quote|text=It is ugly to be punishable, but there is no glory in punishing.|sign=Foucault|source=The body of the condemned}}
{{Quote|text=Beneath the increasing leniency of punishment, then, one may map a displacement of its point of application; and through this displacement, a whole field of recent objects, a whole new system of truth and a mass of roles hitherto unknown in the exercise of criminal justice. A corpus of knowledge, techniques, ‘scientific’ discourses is formed and becomes entangled with the practice of the power to punish.|sign=Foucault|source=The body of the condemned}}
{{Quote|text=Beneath the increasing leniency of punishment, then, one may map a displacement of its point of application; and through this displacement, a whole field of recent objects, a whole new system of truth and a mass of roles hitherto unknown in the exercise of criminal justice. A corpus of knowledge, techniques, ‘scientific’ discourses is formed and becomes entangled with the practice of the power to punish.|sign=Foucault|source=The body of the condemned}}
{{Quote|text=We should admit rather that power produces knowledge (and not simply by encouraging it because it serves power or by applying it because it is useful); that power and knowledge directly imply one another; that there is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations.|sign=Foucault|source=The body of the condemned}}


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* Does the examination reveal any mental or psychic abnormalities in the subject? If so, describe them and specify to which conditions they are related.
* Does the examination reveal any mental or psychic abnormalities in the subject? If so, describe them and specify to which conditions they are related.
* Is the offence with which the subject is charged related to such abnormalities or not?
* Is the offense with which the subject is charged related to such abnormalities or not?
* Is the subject in a dangerous condition?
* Is the subject in a dangerous condition?
* Is the subject eligible for criminal sanction?
* Is the subject eligible for criminal sanction?
* Is the subject curable or rehabilitatable?
* Is the subject curable or rehabilitatable?
* Was the subject in a state of insanity within the meaning of Article 64 of the Penal Code at the time of the offence?
* Was the subject in a state of insanity within the meaning of Article 64 of the Penal Code at the time of the offence?
* Punishment as a way to support the political-economy of the time.
* A history of the body in the political field and its relationship with power.
* Power and knowledge directly imply one another.


Article 64 requires to specify whether the crime was committed in a state of insanity.
Article 64 requires to specify whether the crime was committed in a state of insanity.