Foucault, Michel

Discipline and punish: the birth of the prison - 2nd ed. - New York Vintage Books 1995 - ix, 333p.; 20cm.

In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker 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.

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Social sciences --Social problems and social services
Prison discipline
Criminology
Poststructuralism
Criminology--Philosophy--History

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