The social marketplace for new and used books.

Get started

Learn to sell
Learn to buy
Buy textbooks
Sign up
Buy a giftcard
For the authors

Support

Help
Track a shipment
Terms of use
Privacy policy
Cookies policy

Company

About us
Work with us
Give feedback
Categories

Contact us

Fast delivery with

Safe payments by

Visa
Mastercard
Vipps
Klarna

© 2026 Bookis AS

English

Norway

Region is based on IP address

  1. Home
  2. Penology and punishment
  1. Home
  2. Genres
  3. Penology and punishment
Discipline and Punish The Birth of the Prison

Paperback • 2020 • English

Discipline and Punish The Birth of the Prison

By Michel Foucault

0 Ratings • 0.0 of 5

‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌

About the book

'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innovative' The New York Times Book Review The grisly spectacle of public executions and torture of centuries ago has been replaced by the penal system in western society - but has anything really changed?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

Book details

ISBN

9780241386019

Publisher

Penguin Classics

Published year

2020

Language

English

Original title

Discipline and Punish The Birth of the Prison

Format

Paperback

Shippping and returns

Shipping

Used books are shipped by the seller. Expected delivery after package is sent is 2-4 days.

Returns

Contact the seller after delivery.

Reviews · 0

0 Ratings • 0.0 of 5

You might also like

Social Control

Social Control

James J.

On the State Lectures at the Collège de France, 1989 - 1992

On the State Lectures at the Collège de France, 1989 - 1992

Pierre Bourdieu

Alternative Criminologies

Alternative Criminologies

Handbook on Prisons

Handbook on Prisons

Criminological Theory

Criminological Theory

Robert Lilly

My Fellow Prisoners

My Fellow Prisoners

Mikhail Khodorkovskiĭ

The Prisoner Society

The Prisoner Society

Ben Crewe

The Prison and the American Imagination

The Prison and the American Imagination

Caleb Smith

Penal Exceptionalism? : Nordic Prison Policy and Practice

Penal Exceptionalism? : Nordic Prison Policy and Practice

Thomas Ugelvik, Jane Dullum

The Prison Officer

The Prison Officer

Alison Liebling

History of Madness

History of Madness

Michel Foucault

Criminal Psychology A Beginner's Guide

Criminal Psychology A Beginner's Guide

Ray Bull

Foucault : en introduktion

Foucault : en introduktion

Roddy Nilsson

The Perfect Crime

The Perfect Crime

Jean Baudrillard

Criminology and Social Theory (Clarendon Studies in Criminology)

Criminology and Social Theory (Clarendon Studies in Criminology)

David Garland

criminogical theory: an analysis of its underlying assumptions

criminogical theory: an analysis of its underlying assumptions

Prisons and Their Moral Performance

Prisons and Their Moral Performance

Alison Liebling

Prisongate The Shocking State Of Britain's Prisons & The Need For Visionary Change

Prisongate The Shocking State Of Britain's Prisons & The Need For Visionary Change

Sir David Ramsbotham

The Roots of Evil A Social History of Crime and Punishment

The Roots of Evil A Social History of Crime and Punishment

Christopher Hibbert

Madness and Civilization A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

Madness and Civilization A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

Michel Foucault

The Order of Things

The Order of Things

Michel Foucault

The Culture of Control

The Culture of Control

David Garland

Power

Power

Michel Foucault

The 48 Laws of Power

The 48 Laws of Power

Robert Greene

The Just

The Just

Paul Ricoeur

Overvåkning og straff

Overvåkning og straff

Michel Foucault

Prison notebooks: Selections

Prison notebooks: Selections

Quintin Hoare, Antonio Gramsci

Discourses of power

Discourses of power

Barry Hindess

A History of Torture

A History of Torture

George Ryley Scott

Punishment and Modern Society A Study in Social Theory

Punishment and Modern Society A Study in Social Theory

David Garland

Punishment and modern society

Punishment and modern society

David Garland

 insanity

insanity

thomas szasz

The Foucault Reader

The Foucault Reader

Michel Foucault

Psychological Survival

Psychological Survival

Stanley Cohen

Det moderne fengsels historie

Det moderne fengsels historie

Michel Foucault

Law, Liberty and Morality

Law, Liberty and Morality

H. L. A. Hart

 the manufacture of madness

the manufacture of madness

thomas s. szasz

Writing as Punishment in Schools, Courts, and Everyday Life

Writing as Punishment in Schools, Courts, and Everyday Life

Spencer Schaffner