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Discipline and Punish The Birth of the Prison

Paperback • 2020 • English

Discipline and Punish The Birth of the Prison

By Michel Foucault

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'Imaginative, illuminating and innovative' The New York Times Book Review The grisly spectacle of public executions and torture of centuries ago has been replaced by the penal system in western society - but has anything really changed? In his revolutionary work on control and power relations in our public institutions, Michel Foucault argues that the development of prisons, police organizations and legal hierarchies has merely changed the focus of domination from our bodies to our souls. ...Show more

Crime and criminology
Penology and punishment

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ISBN

9780241386019

Publisher

Penguin Classics

Published year

2020

Language

English

Original title

Discipline and Punish The Birth of the Prison

Format

Paperback

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