Class-based disparities in punishment provoked popular riots before the Revolution

Evidence

There was agitation against the difference in penalties according to social class: in 1781, the parish priest of Champré had been killed by the lord of the manor, and an attempt was made to declare the murderer insane; ‘the peasants, who were extremely attached to their pastor, were furious and had at first seemed ready to lay violent hands upon their lord and to set fire to the castle … Everyone protested, and rightly, against the indulgence of the minister who deprived justice of the means of punishing so abominable a crime’ (Hardy, IV, 394). — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 117

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Lower classes rejected penal justice and intervened physically at its public sites — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 117; Unemployed floating populations fueled preindustrial urban riots; Poorer classes would revolt to defend their tolerated illegalities — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 138 (+1 more)

Related

• An underprivileged mob can create a lower class through sheer violence (similarity 0.90)
• Lower classes rejected penal justice and intervened physically at its public sites (similarity 0.85)
• Poorer classes would revolt to defend their tolerated illegalities (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• Unemployed floating populations fueled preindustrial urban riots #expands (0.82)
• Poorer classes would revolt to defend their tolerated illegalities #expands (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 138