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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (French: Surveiller et punir : Naissance de la prison) is a 1975 book by French philosopher Michel Foucault.It is an analysis of the social and theoretical mechanisms behind the changes that occurred in Western penal systems during the modern age based on historical documents from France.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Naissance de la prison (Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison) ... is Foucault's only book-length work on literature.
Disciplinary institutions (French: institution disciplinaire) is a concept proposed by Michel Foucault in Discipline and Punish (1975). School, prison, barracks, or the hospital (especially psychiatric hospitals) are examples of historical disciplinary institutions, all created in their modern form in the 19th century with the Industrial Revolution.
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison: 1976–1984 Histoire de la sexualité. Vol I: La Volonté de savoir (1976) Vol II: L'Usage des plaisirs (1984) Vol III: Le Souci de soi (1984) Vol IV: Les aveux de la chair (2018) [2] Paris: Gallimard. The History of Sexuality. Vol I: The Will to Knowledge; Vol II: The Use of Pleasure; Vol III ...
Foucault was writing Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison in the early 1970s, against the backdrop of prison revolts "throughout the world" that protested a century-old system of cold, suffocation, overcrowding, hunger, physical maltreatment, so-called "model prisons", tranquilizers, and isolation. [2]: 30
This book explores the ideas used to justify imprisoning people as punishment in the early United States. Hirsch, the author, uses Massachusetts as the template. He traces how ideas about prisons transition from being discussed in theory to becoming physical buildings and implemented systems.
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Vintage Books (1979). ISBN 0-394-72767-3. Lichtenstein, Alex. Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South. Verso (1995). ISBN 1-85984-086-8. Mancini, Matthew J. One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866–1928.
Over the past 200 years, the United States has put into service various institutions to punish criminals. Examples include: prisons (penitentiaries), institutions for rehabilitation (reformatories), and a system where prisoners were leased to private companies (convict lease).