SOC301H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Solitary Confinement, Prison Reform, Models 1
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Interested in the prison, its an example of disciplinary power. Quote tearing from limb to limb (cid:494)soul the prison of the body(cid:495) Prison works on the soul to act upon the body. Targeting you to be a good student, school teaches you to sit there and listen. Prison as a thought, disciplining the soul, and how it emerges across. Fall in line on a bell curve. Make sure you fall in line with what(cid:495)s normal. You want to be seen as a good student, prisoner. Getting knowledge about what normal looks like. How students learn in school, what makes a good citizen. Believing that there is something at the center potentially watching you. People back in the day before prisons, were brutal. Capital punishment was really only used for serious crimes on property or against another person. Rapid urbanization because loss of surveillance happens. You have city grow, local elites now are no longer central authority.
