Penal power shifted from judging acts to interrogating the criminal’s identity.
Evidence
When penal practice replaced the question: “What have you done?” with the question: “Who are you?” you see the jurisdictional function of the penal system being transformed, or doubled, or possibly undermined, by the question of veridiction. — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 332
Categorization
- XREF: Echoes Foucault’s own Discipline and Punish and the ‘know the criminal’ theme; also connects to the genealogy/vs/jurisdiction framework he lays out across these lecture openings. — connects to: Penal reform shifted punishment from the act to the offender’s character — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 160; Penal power shifted its target from the body to the mind — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 162; Punishment doubled into an object relation producing the criminal as a known individual — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 163 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Modern penal practice replaced the act-question with the identity-question
#corroborates(1.00) - Penal reform shifted punishment from the act to the offender’s character
#corroborates(0.95) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 160 - Late-nineteenth-century penal reforms shifted punishment from the offense to the offender
#corroborates(0.95) — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 3417 - Penal power shifted its target from the body to the mind
#expands(0.90) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 162 - Penal codes keep stable while the substance judged shifts from crime to offender
#expands(0.90) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 58 - Penitentiary technique judges the criminal’s affinity with crime, not the act itself
#exemplifies(0.90) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 388 - 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 - The respectful ‘humanity’ of the criminal became the target of correction
#expands(0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 126