Discipline And Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Name: Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Brand: Viking
SKU: 9780713910407
Price: 3626.00 INR
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by Michel Foucault

Viking · 1977

A study of how Western punishment moved from the body to the soul, and how discipline spread through prisons, police and everyday institutions such as schools and hospitals.

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Foucault traces how punishment changed from a public spectacle in the Middle Ages to a system of reform in the eighteenth century, when growing dissent and economic change called for closer control over individuals. The book follows the development of the Western prison, police organisations, and the legal and administrative hierarchies used for social control.

A central argument is that schools, factories, barracks and hospitals share an organisation that allows a person's time and space to be controlled hour by hour. In this way the book explains the growth of what it calls disciplinary society as a whole.

The book suits readers of social theory, criminology and history.