Punishment doubled into an object relation producing the criminal as a known individual

Evidence

On the one hand, the criminal designated as the enemy of all, whom it is in the interest of all to track down, falls outside the pact, disqualifies himself as a citizen and emerges, bearing within him as it were, a wild fragment of nature; he appears as a villain, a monster, a madman, perhaps, a sick and, before long, ‘abnormal’ individual. It is as such that, one day, he will belong to a scientific objectification and to the ‘treatment’ that is correlative to it. On the other hand, the need to measure, from within, the effects of the punitive power prescribes tactics of intervention over all criminals, actual or potential: the organization of a field of prevention, the calculation of interests, the circulation of representations and signs, the constitution of a horizon of certainty and proof, the adjustment of penalties to ever more subtle variables; all this also leads to an objectification of criminals and crimes. In either case, one sees that the power relation that underlies the exercise of punishment begins to be duplicated by an object relation in which are caught up not only the crime as a fact to be established according to common norms, but the criminal as an individual to be known according to specific criteria. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 163

Categorization

• XREF: The doubling of power relation into object relation prefigures how the panoptic gaze creates the delinquent subject it then claims merely to describe. — connects to: The carceral regime extracts knowledge that converts punishment into a productive operation. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 384; Penal justice entrapped itself by entering relations of knowledge. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 381; Fabricating delinquency gave criminal justice authority through a scientific horizon of truth — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 391 (+16 more)

Related

• The example shifted from terror to the decipherable lesson of crime and punishment (similarity 0.86)
• Fabricating delinquency gave criminal justice authority through a scientific horizon of truth (similarity 0.85)
• Penal justice entrapped itself by entering relations of knowledge. (similarity 0.85)
• The respectful ‘humanity’ of the criminal became the target of correction (similarity 0.84)
• The criminal’s soul is itself judged and punished, not merely analyzed (similarity 0.82)
• Classifying the delinquent as a pathological subject is inseparable from politically isolating delinquency (similarity 0.82)
• Punishment must make the crime-punishment code immediate in act and reality (similarity 0.82)
• Penal codes keep stable while the substance judged shifts from crime to offender (similarity 0.81)
• Modern penal practice replaced the act-question with the identity-question (similarity 0.81)
• The carceral regime extracts knowledge that converts punishment into a productive operation. (similarity 0.81)
• Penal power shifted its target from the body to the mind (similarity 0.80)
• Penal power shifted from judging acts to interrogating the criminal’s identity. (similarity 0.80)
• Police, prison, and delinquency form a self-reinforcing circuit producing delinquents (similarity 0.80)
• Penitentiary technique judges the criminal’s affinity with crime, not the act itself (similarity 0.79)
• Penal reform shifted punishment from the act to the offender’s character (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The example shifted from terror to the decipherable lesson of crime and punishment #expands (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 180
• Penal power shifted its target from the body to the mind #expands (0.78) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 162
• Codified legal punishment works by creating mental associations of crime and punishment. #expands (0.75)