POLSCI 2MN3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Michel Foucault, Deterrence Theory
23 Jun 2017
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Looking at different aspects of our system of punishment. How the power of the state (that we have given to them) has the power to punish someone. Someone who is punished in one context wont in another ( rst theme) Trying to deter people from those wrong doings and what kinds of mechanisms we use when we say you have done wrong to deter you and others as well. One of the political philosophers who changed our thinking about mechanisms of social control is michel foucault. M. foucault: discipline and punish: the birth of prisons. Showing us how punishment has changed over years and extended to canadian and. Think about in the present context the way that these different systems overlap and the ways in which they overlap for purposes. A long time ago, it was through physical harm under the king or queens authority, public spectacle, encourage people to come.
