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Discipline, Punishment,
Panopticon

Discipline
The practice of training people to obey rules or a code of
behavior, using punishment to correct disobedience
The controlled behavior resulting from such training
Activity that provides mental or physical training
A system of rules of conduct
A branch of knowledge, typically one studied in higher
education

Punishment
The infliction or imposition of a penalty as retribution for
an offence
The penalty inflicted

Michel Foucault Discipline and

Punish
Where there is power, there is resistance.
...if you are not like everybody else, then you are
abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick.
These three categories, not being like everybody else,
not being normal and being sick are in fact very
different but have been reduced to the same thing
It is the certainty of being punished and not the
horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must
discourage crime.

Two types of punishment

Pre-modern system

 Carceral system/ penal system

Panopticon (carceral system)

A circular prison with cells arranged around a central
well, from which prisoners could at all times be
observed.

 The Panopticon is a marvelous machine which,

whatever use one may wish to put it to, produces
homogeneous effects of power.
By looking at the individuals in the prison, control is exercised
over them

Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools,

barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?

Flaws
Not suited to any specific form of crime
Homogenized
Can lead to disproportionate retribution

 No direct effect on public (debatable)

Idleness of convicts
Costly; difficult to supervise
Can be cause to tyranny (even by just the immediate
authority watching over them)

 We are now far away from the country

of tortures, dotted with wheels,
gibbets, gallows, pillories; we are far,
too, from that dream of the reformers,
less than fifty years before.