Penal justice entrapped itself by entering relations of knowledge.

Evidence

But, if the penitentiary, in so far as it went well beyond mere detention, was able not only to establish itself, but to entrap the whole of penal justice and to imprison the judges themselves, it was because it was able to introduce criminal justice into relations of knowledge that have since become its infinite labyrinth. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 381

Categorization

• XREF: This ‘infinite labyrinth’ of knowledge mirrors the reader’s interest in how surveillance architecture extends past walls into knowledge-production systems. — connects to: The carceral regime extracts knowledge that converts punishment into a productive operation. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 384; Punishment doubled into an object relation producing the criminal as a known individual — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 163; Penal power shifted its target from the body to the mind — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 162 (+6 more)

Related

• The carceral regime extracts knowledge that converts punishment into a productive operation. (similarity 0.88)
• Punishment doubled into an object relation producing the criminal as a known individual (similarity 0.85)
• The rise of the prison institutionalized the power to punish (similarity 0.83)
• Fabricating delinquency gave criminal justice authority through a scientific horizon of truth (similarity 0.83)
• Carceral power is naturalized by borrowing the rationality of curing and educating (similarity 0.81)
• Police, prison, and delinquency form a self-reinforcing circuit producing delinquents (similarity 0.80)
• Disciplinary penality is irreducible to the traditional penality of law and eventually invested it. (similarity 0.79)
• The penitentiary apparatus substitutes the delinquent for the offender. (similarity 0.79)
• Classifying the delinquent as a pathological subject is inseparable from politically isolating delinquency (similarity 0.79)
• The public spectacle of punishment gave way to enclosed hierarchized detention within decades. (similarity 0.79)
• The criminal’s soul is itself judged and punished, not merely analyzed (similarity 0.79)
• Penal power shifted its target from the body to the mind (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The examination fuses power relations with knowledge relations into one mechanism #expands (0.95) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 284
• Codified legal punishment works by creating mental associations of crime and punishment. #expands (0.90)
• Punishment doubled into an object relation producing the criminal as a known individual #expands (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 163
• Penal power shifted its target from the body to the mind #expands (0.82) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 162
• Fabricating delinquency gave criminal justice authority through a scientific horizon of truth #corroborates (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 391
• Punishment’s meaning is fashioned through institutional symbiotic relationships #expands (0.78) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 283