Penal detention replaced public execution as a calculated technique for altering behavior.

Evidence

The panoptic carriage had only a short history. Yet the way in which it replaced the chain-gang and the reasons for this replacement recapitulated the whole process by which in eighty years penal detention replaced public execution as a calculated technique for altering individual behaviour. The cell-carriage was an apparatus of reform. What replaced the public execution was not a massive enclosure, it was a carefully articulated disciplinary mechanism – at least in principle. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 400

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Staged ceremony can substitute for added real punishment to deter others. — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 16; Penal reform shifted punishment from the act to the offender’s character — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 160; Well-designed punishment converts crime from glory into misfortune requiring re-education — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 184 (+6 more)

Related

• The shift from spectacle to carceral punishment was a technical mutation, not a softening (similarity 0.86)
• Penal reform aimed to increase punishment’s effects while lowering its costs. (similarity 0.81)
• Penal codes keep stable while the substance judged shifts from crime to offender (similarity 0.80)
• Staged ceremony can substitute for added real punishment to deter others. (similarity 0.80)
• Well-designed punishment converts crime from glory into misfortune requiring re-education (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Penal power shifted its target from the body to the mind #expands (0.90) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 162
• Penal reform shifted punishment from the act to the offender’s character #expands (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 160
• Penalties target the inmate’s transformation, not the exchange value of the crime #expands (0.82) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 374
• Well-designed punishment converts crime from glory into misfortune requiring re-education #expands (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 184
• 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
• Public punishment served to reconstitute the sovereign’s injured authority #contradicts (0.75) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 675