Discipline and Punish
Summarize the section titled, Punishment, from Foucault's, Discipline and Punish.
Discipline and Punish
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Discipline and Punish
Punishment, traces the concerns voiced by eighteenth century reformers of punishment. The reformers, who were mostly lawyers from within the system, argued that there should be a clear and unarbitrary link between a crime and its penalty, punishment should work through “signs” that have a deterrent effect on the general population, and there should be access to work and education. However, Foucault suggests that these reformers were self-interested; the insistence on civil rights was a product of the rise of the middle-class, indicating the social and political changes that were about to take place in the French Revolution. These reformers sought to create a more efficient form of power that functioned like a machine, a more even distribution of punishment that individualized criminals while insisting on the “humanity” of the criminal, which was really a new method of control.
Discipline and Punish