CRIM 3656 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Kilmainham Gaol, Michel Foucault, Jeremy Bentham
24 Feb 2016
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Crim 3656 lecture 06 discipline and risk from discipline to risk : michel foucault punishment and technologies of power. Michel foucault is more focused in liberation and freedom. He questions explanatory claims of social relations that proposed a new grant truth that explained everything. Foucault developed a new way of approaching punishing, he was more interested in examining punishment from the bottom up rather than the other way society is a organic smoothly functioning whole. Foucault started talking about penal institutions, how they exercised control and how they were constructed, what forms of knowledge"s these practices portrayed. Foucault was to examine the birth of the prison and discipline and punishment . Unlike durkheim foucault not interested in social solidarity or linking punishment with the reproduction of capital punishment like karl marx. Robert francois damien"s the last person to be executed for the crime of regicide in attempt to murder king louis the 13th.
