CRIM 2653 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Physical Medicine And Rehabilitation, Predictive Policing, Biopower
24 Jul 2020
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From last week: power-knowledge i: there can be no power without knowledge. Foucault ii: knowledge of mental illness, definition or truth of mental illness, knowledge of crime and punishment, definitions or truths of crime and punishment. Overview: foucault"s formulations, historical strategies of power, sovereign, disciplinary and governmental forms of power, governmentality, governmentality and biopower, sovereignty-discipline-government, discipline and governmentality today, discipline & panopticon today, disciplinary techniques vs. Governmental actuarial techniques: society of control, consequences of governmental power, risk and punishment, the limits of foucault"s governmentality, predictive policing. Historical strategies of power: sovereign, disciplinary and governmental forms of power, sovereign power: exercised by the sovereign, direct, spectacular, repressive, law is the medium of power. Law represents the will of the sovereign: public execution someone who breaks the law and then i perceived as someone threatens the law and thus must be punished. Less emphasis on rehabilitation and treatment: elements of classical criminal law. Disciplinary power: disciplinary power: exercised by disciplinary instituitions.
