European and American punishment was entirely reorganized in less than a century
Evidence
We have, then, a public execution and a time-table. They do not punish the same crimes or the same type of delinquent. But they each define a certain penal style. Less than a century separates them. It was a time when, in Europe and in the United States, the entire economy of punishment was redistributed. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 42
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: The rise of the prison institutionalized the power to punish — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 209; Military punishment reform moved from spectacular severity toward certainty of punishment; Penal reform sought not less punishment but more universal, deeper social control — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 136 (+3 more)
Related
- Penal reform sought not less punishment but more universal, deeper social control (similarity 0.85)
- The rise of the prison institutionalized the power to punish (similarity 0.83)
- Modern universal imprisonment was not the reformers’ original design (similarity 0.81)
- Penal reform succeeded by managing illegalities differentially, not eliminating them (similarity 0.81)
- Reformers reframed punishment as protection rather than vengeance (similarity 0.80)
- Reformers sought to redistribute punitive power throughout the whole social body. (similarity 0.80)
- Reformers shifted punishment’s aim from expiation to prevention (similarity 0.80)
- Penal reform aimed to increase punishment’s effects while lowering its costs. (similarity 0.80)
- Reform-era punishment was future-directed, aimed at prevention (similarity 0.80)
- Penal codes keep stable while the substance judged shifts from crime to offender (similarity 0.79)
- The rise of imprisonment was historically novel, not a natural succession. (similarity 0.79)
- Reform punishment shifted example from sovereign display to economic obstacle (similarity 0.79)
- The public spectacle of punishment gave way to enclosed hierarchized detention within decades. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Abolishing this right took eight hundred years of gradual change
#contradicts(0.85) — , The Rod and the Child, 1391 - The rise of the prison institutionalized the power to punish
#corroborates(0.82) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 209 - Military punishment reform moved from spectacular severity toward certainty of punishment
#expands(0.80) - Punishment shifted from sovereign vengeance to ensuring no crime goes unpunished
#expands(0.80) - Reformers shifted punishment’s aim from expiation to prevention
#expands(0.78) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 204 - Penal reform sought not less punishment but more universal, deeper social control
#expands(0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 136