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




=== Quotes ===
=== Quotes ===
{{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}}


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