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Discipline and punish : the birth of the prison

Michel Foucault ; translated from the French by Alan Sheridan.
London : Penguin Classics, 2020. ©1977
"In the Middle Ages there were gaols and dungeons, but punishment was for the most part a spectacle. In this provocative work, Michel Foucault argues that the development of the Western system of prisons, police and legal hierarchies have merely shifted the focus of social control from our bodies to our souls" --

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Bibliographic Information

Format:
book Book
Author:
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984
Subject:
Prisons.
Prison discipline.
Punishment.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780241386019
Course:
SOC207
Sociological Theory II
Series:
Penguin modern classics
Note:
Translation of: Surveiller et punir.
This translation originally published: London: Allen Lane, 1977.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographic references.

 

 


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