Police used ex-convicts to maintain lower-class hostility toward delinquents
Evidence
More specific methods were used to maintain the hostility of the poorer classes to delinquents (the use of ex-convicts as informers, police spies, strike-breakers or thugs). There has been a systematic confusion between offences against common law and those offences against the severe legislation concerning the livret (work record), strikes, coalitions, associations, for which the workers demanded political status. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 436
Categorization
- XREF: Supports the internalized-panopticon thesis: workers police each other via planted informers rather than visible authority. — connects to: Police surveillance of released convicts drives them back into crime — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 406; The state recruits delinquents as an unaccountable parallel police and thug army — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 430; Workers’ own campaigns ultimately isolated and despised convicts — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 438 (+3 more)
Related
- Workers’ own campaigns ultimately isolated and despised convicts (similarity 0.84)
- Police recruited delinquents as informers by promising them indulgence (similarity 0.84)
- Lower classes rejected penal justice and intervened physically at its public sites (similarity 0.81)
- Prisons mixed convict classes to keep lower strata in perpetual conflict (similarity 0.81)
- Police surveillance of released convicts drives them back into crime (similarity 0.81)
- The state recruits delinquents as an unaccountable parallel police and thug army (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Police recruited delinquents as informers by promising them indulgence
#exemplifies(0.95) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 561 - Lower classes rejected penal justice and intervened physically at its public sites
#expands(0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 117 - Prisons mixed convict classes to keep lower strata in perpetual conflict
#exemplifies(0.70) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 436