Police recruited delinquents as informers by promising them indulgence

Evidence

‘Informers’ are people who ‘expect indulgence for themselves’; they are usually ‘bad subjects who expose others who are worse still. Furthermore, it is enough for someone to have his name in the police register for him never to be lost sight of.’ — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 561

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Police surveillance of released convicts drives them back into crime — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 406; Police used ex-convicts to maintain lower-class hostility toward delinquents — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 436; Police, prison, and delinquency form a self-reinforcing circuit producing delinquents — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 432

Related

• Police surveillance of released convicts drives them back into crime (similarity 0.84)
• Police used ex-convicts to maintain lower-class hostility toward delinquents (similarity 0.84)
• Police, prison, and delinquency form a self-reinforcing circuit producing delinquents (similarity 0.83)
• Secret police historically self-financed through the crimes they policed. (similarity 0.79)
• Classifying the delinquent as a pathological subject is inseparable from politically isolating delinquency (similarity 0.79)
• Fabricating delinquency gave criminal justice authority through a scientific horizon of truth (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Police, prison, and delinquency form a self-reinforcing circuit producing delinquents #exemplifies (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 432