Fabricating delinquency gave criminal justice authority through a scientific horizon of truth

Evidence

Now the ‘delinquent’ makes it possible to join the two lines and to constitute under the authority of medicine, psychology or criminology, an individual in whom the offender of the law and the object of a scientific technique are superimposed – or almost – one upon the other. That the grip of the prison on the penal system should not have led to a violent reaction of rejection is no doubt due to many reasons. One of these is that, in fabricating delinquency, it gave to criminal justice a unitary field of objects, authenticated by the ‘sciences’, and thus enabled it to function on a general horizon of ‘truth’. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 391

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: how the production of a ‘delinquent class’ legitimates surveillance — parallels the way Oceania manufactures thoughtcrime to justify perpetual vigilance.
• XREF: connects to: Investigation transferred truth-finding authority from God and community to the sovereign state — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 351; Penal justice entrapped itself by entering relations of knowledge. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 381; Police, prison, and delinquency form a self-reinforcing circuit producing delinquents — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 432 (+3 more)

Related

• Classifying the delinquent as a pathological subject is inseparable from politically isolating delinquency (similarity 0.91)
• Police, prison, and delinquency form a self-reinforcing circuit producing delinquents (similarity 0.88)
• The prison and the delinquent are mutually produced in a single technological ensemble (similarity 0.86)
• Punishment doubled into an object relation producing the criminal as a known individual (similarity 0.85)
• Opening law to all truths made justice lose control over its own truth (similarity 0.84)
• Penal justice entrapped itself by entering relations of knowledge. (similarity 0.83)
• The penitentiary apparatus substitutes the delinquent for the offender. (similarity 0.81)
• The prison’s apparent failure is actually its designed success at producing delinquency (similarity 0.81)
• Enclosing delinquency in a supervised group neutralizes broader popular illegality (similarity 0.81)
• The rise of the prison institutionalized the power to punish (similarity 0.80)
• Disciplinary penality is irreducible to the traditional penality of law and eventually invested it. (similarity 0.80)
• Penal codes keep stable while the substance judged shifts from crime to offender (similarity 0.80)
• The criminal’s soul is itself judged and punished, not merely analyzed (similarity 0.80)
• The respectful ‘humanity’ of the criminal became the target of correction (similarity 0.80)
• Discipline judges individuals themselves, not just their acts (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Police, prison, and delinquency form a self-reinforcing circuit producing delinquents #expands (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 432
• Punishment doubled into an object relation producing the criminal as a known individual #expands (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 163
• Opening law to all truths made justice lose control over its own truth #qualifies (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 158