CRM 3301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Mass Surveillance, Age Of Enlightenment, Panopticism
11 Dec 2015
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Midterm comments memorize but also put the explanation into own words. Focus on theory discipline that is focused on questions of domination and power (these terms are interchangeable) Breaking away from traditional criminology re: power and. Foucault presents a history of the changes in criminal codes and punishments to explore why we moved from a bodily punishment of torture to a gentle punishment of prison and the cjs. But gentler punishments have, in fact, not been driven by liberal/ humanist desires for more freedom, but by desires for more control. Yet this control is not that of sovereign power, it is dispersed & generalized. Generalized power does not target the body but the soul". It is not punishment but discipline, it aims at individuals in order to discipline a make social subjects. Foucault describes a type of society where social control was more and more a matter of construing a common mind and language rather than political representation.
