Penitentiary technique judges the criminal’s affinity with crime, not the act itself

Evidence

The delinquent is also to be distinguished from the offender in that he is not only the author of his acts (the author responsible in terms of certain criteria of free, conscious will), but is linked to his offence by a whole bundle of complex threads (instincts, drives, tendencies, character). The penitentiary technique bears not on the relation between author and crime, but on the criminal’s affinity with his crime. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 388

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Prison wages act as a fiction measuring moral transformation, not production — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 370; Penalties target the inmate’s transformation, not the exchange value of the crime — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 374; The real target of punishment is potential offenders, not the convict himself — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 177 (+4 more)

Related

• Penalties target the inmate’s transformation, not the exchange value of the crime (similarity 0.87)
• The penitentiary apparatus substitutes the delinquent for the offender. (similarity 0.85)
• The prison and the delinquent are mutually produced in a single technological ensemble (similarity 0.83)
• The criminal’s soul is itself judged and punished, not merely analyzed (similarity 0.82)
• Penal reform shifted punishment from the act to the offender’s character (similarity 0.82)
• The real target of punishment is potential offenders, not the convict himself (similarity 0.81)
• The carceral regime extracts knowledge that converts punishment into a productive operation. (similarity 0.81)
• Prison wages act as a fiction measuring moral transformation, not production (similarity 0.80)
• The rise of the prison institutionalized the power to punish (similarity 0.80)
• Police, prison, and delinquency form a self-reinforcing circuit producing delinquents (similarity 0.80)
• The prison’s apparent failure is actually its designed success at producing delinquency (similarity 0.80)
• The respectful ‘humanity’ of the criminal became the target of correction (similarity 0.80)
• Classifying the delinquent as a pathological subject is inseparable from politically isolating delinquency (similarity 0.80)
• Punishment doubled into an object relation producing the criminal as a known individual (similarity 0.79)
• Penal codes keep stable while the substance judged shifts from crime to offender (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The prison sorts prisoners by hidden dangerousness revealed in conduct #expands (0.88) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 202
• The criminal’s soul is itself judged and punished, not merely analyzed #expands (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 58
• The real target of punishment is potential offenders, not the convict himself #expands (0.82) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 177