Police, prison, and delinquency form a self-reinforcing circuit producing delinquents

Evidence

Prison and police form a twin mechanism; together they assure in the whole field of illegalities the differentiation, isolation and use of delinquency. In the illegalities, the police-prison system segments a manipulable delinquency. This delinquency, with its specificity, is a result of the system; but it also becomes a part and an instrument of it. So that one should speak of an ensemble whose three terms (police-prison-delinquency) support one another and form a circuit that is never interrupted. Police surveillance provides the prison with offenders, which the prison transforms into delinquents, the targets and auxiliaries of police supervisions, which regularly send back a certain number of them to prison. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 432

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The penitentiary apparatus substitutes the delinquent for the offender. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 386; The prison and the delinquent are mutually produced in a single technological ensemble — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 390; Fabricating delinquency gave criminal justice authority through a scientific horizon of truth — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 391 (+11 more)

Related

• The prison and the delinquent are mutually produced in a single technological ensemble (similarity 0.92)
• Classifying the delinquent as a pathological subject is inseparable from politically isolating delinquency (similarity 0.91)
• The penitentiary apparatus substitutes the delinquent for the offender. (similarity 0.89)
• Fabricating delinquency gave criminal justice authority through a scientific horizon of truth (similarity 0.88)
• The prison’s apparent failure is actually its designed success at producing delinquency (similarity 0.88)
• Prisons function as schools of crime and organized delinquency (similarity 0.85)
• Police recruited delinquents as informers by promising them indulgence (similarity 0.83)
• The prison’s failure, reform, and discipline form one simultaneous carceral system (similarity 0.82)
• The rise of the prison institutionalized the power to punish (similarity 0.82)
• Secret police historically self-financed through the crimes they policed. (similarity 0.81)
• Penitentiary technique judges the criminal’s affinity with crime, not the act itself (similarity 0.80)
• Prisoner behavior control generated a continuous individualizing knowledge (similarity 0.80)
• Prison integrated correctional transformation into legal detention from the start (similarity 0.80)
• Punishment doubled into an object relation producing the criminal as a known individual (similarity 0.80)
• Penal justice entrapped itself by entering relations of knowledge. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Punishment doubled into an object relation producing the criminal as a known individual #expands (0.82) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 163
• The prison’s failure, reform, and discipline form one simultaneous carceral system #corroborates (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 418