A swarm of subsidiary authorities fragments judicial power to punish
Evidence
Throughout the penal procedure and the implementation of the sentence there swarms a whole series of subsidiary authorities. Small-scale legal systems and parallel judges have multiplied around the principal judgement: psychiatric or psychological experts, magistrates concerned with the implementation of sentences, educationalists, members of the prison service, all fragment the legal power to punish — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 60
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Judicial accommodation of parallel legal systems perpetuates mafia bargaining.; Institutional accountability constrains violence exercised by authority figures. — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 2000; Justice was paralyzed by badly distributed, over-concentrated power. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 133 (+4 more)
Related
- Rule by decree efficiently dominates heterogeneous territories by withholding information. (similarity 0.84)
- Justice was paralyzed by badly distributed, over-concentrated power. (similarity 0.84)
- The court is subordinate to the prison, not the reverse. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Judicial accommodation of parallel legal systems perpetuates mafia bargaining.
#expands(0.85) - Justice was paralyzed by badly distributed, over-concentrated power.
#corroborates(0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 133 - The rise of the prison institutionalized the power to punish
#expands(0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 209 - Institutional accountability constrains violence exercised by authority figures.
#complicates(0.75) — , The Rod and the Child, 2000