DISCIPLINE & PUNISH

THE BIRTH OF THE PRISON

(Michel Foucault)

PART ONE PART TWO PART THREE PART FOUR

TORTURE PUNISHMENT DISCIPLINE PRISON

Generalized The gentle Docile The means

Punishment way in Bodies of correct Panopticism The Panopticism
The body of the The spectacle of punishment training makes power more
condemned scaffold economic and
-Super-power of -un-arbitrary Hierarchical observation : effective. The
Juridiction -engage with to see induce effect of Panopticon was
mechanics of forces power destined to spread
-Punishment throughout society. It
-The transformation of -Execution of the -use temporal
based on is use to develop the
punishment punishment modulation Normalizing Judgement :
equitable economy, spread
-penalty is mechanics disciplinary mechanism,
-Rules of young -Function of Judicial principles education and
of signs, interest and discipline method of
prisoners Torture -Economic duration punishment, disciplinary improve public
illegalities -learned economy and punishment has to morality, not to save
publicity corrective society.
-inversion of tradition
Docile Body is the classical age
discourse of crime
discovered the body as the The Examination : represents the
target power, but docile body techniques of an observing
is subjected, used, normalizing judgement
transformed, and improved
 Complete and Austere The eighteenth and nineteenth century
Institutions penalty of prison was “new” but was
PART FOUR PRISON really the importing of mechanism of
coercion from elsewhere into penalty.

Illegalities and
Delinquency

Popular illegalities had three means of diffusion:

-Their insertion into the general political outlook

The Carceral
-The articulation of social struggles

-The communication between different forms and

levels of offenses.
An acceptance of the carceral
system points to the triumph of the
law of the norm.