An exhaustive penal code must close every gap to prevent hope of impunity

Evidence

For penal semiotics to cover the whole field of illegalities that one wishes to eliminate, all offences must be defined; they must be classified and collected into species from which none of them can escape. A code is therefore necessary and this code must be sufficiently precise for each type of offence to be clearly present in it. The silence of the law must not harbour the hope of impunity. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 159

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces ‘penal semiotics’ — punishment as a sign system circulated through society — which is the book’s core functional frame and maps directly onto the telescreen’s sign-circulation.
• XREF: connects to: Punishment must make the crime-punishment code immediate in act and reality — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 180; Military legal codes linked each crime to a fixed exact punishment; Punishment shifted from sovereign vengeance to ensuring no crime goes unpunished

Related

• Punishment must make the crime-punishment code immediate in act and reality (similarity 0.85)
• Sentence individualization and exhaustive codification require each other in the economy of punishment (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Punishment shifted from sovereign vengeance to ensuring no crime goes unpunished #corroborates (0.85)
• Punishment must make the crime-punishment code immediate in act and reality #expands (0.78) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 180
• Military legal codes linked each crime to a fixed exact punishment #exemplifies (0.72)