Discipline and punish
Subtitle: the birth of the prison
By: Michel Foucault ; translated from the French by Alan Sheridan
Contributors: Sheridan, Alan
Publisher: Vintage eBooks
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9780307819291
Subjects: Prisons; Prison discipline; Punishment; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology; Social Science
Work titles: Surveiller et punir
Description: In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.
Notes: "Second Vintage Books edition, May 1995"--T.p. verso.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 326-333).
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Torture; title: The body of the condemned; title: The spectacle of the scaffold; title: pt. 2. Punishment; title: Generalized punishment; title: The gentle way in punishment; title: pt. 3. Discipline; title: Docile bodies : the art of distributions; title: The control of activity; title: The organization of geneses; title: The composition of forces; title: The means of correct training : hierarchical observation; title: Normalizing judgement; title: The examination; title: Panopticism; title: pt. 4. Prison; title: Complete and austere institutions; title: Illegalities and delinquency; title: The carceral.