Punishment must make the crime-punishment code immediate in act and reality
Evidence
The laws associated a particular crime with a particular punishment. As soon as the crime is committed, the punishment will follow at once, enacting the discourse of the law and showing that the code, which links ideas, also links realities. The junction, immediate in the text, must be immediate in acts. … Public punishment is the ceremony of immediate recoding. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 180
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Penal law design requires theatrical stagecraft — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 684; Pain was calibrated to crime, criminal, and victim by a detailed legal code — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 83; Sentence individualization and exhaustive codification require each other in the economy of punishment — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 159 (+5 more)
Related
- An exhaustive penal code must close every gap to prevent hope of impunity (similarity 0.85)
- The example shifted from terror to the decipherable lesson of crime and punishment (similarity 0.85)
- Well-designed punishment converts crime from glory into misfortune requiring re-education (similarity 0.84)
- Pain was calibrated to crime, criminal, and victim by a detailed legal code (similarity 0.84)
- Certainty, not severity, makes punishment deter because it fixes crime-punishment links in minds (similarity 0.83)
- Sentence individualization and exhaustive codification require each other in the economy of punishment (similarity 0.82)
- Revenge requires crime and punishment be separated in time (similarity 0.82)
- Punishment doubled into an object relation producing the criminal as a known individual (similarity 0.82)
- Punishment deters when its expected cost merely exceeds crime’s benefit (similarity 0.81)
- Punishment’s severity must aim at future prevention, not past harm (similarity 0.81)
- Abstract legal codification deters crime by engineering a mental link between offense and punishment (similarity 0.80)
- Penalty operates through the idea of pain, not pain itself (similarity 0.80)
- Penal codes keep stable while the substance judged shifts from crime to offender (similarity 0.79)
- Military legal codes linked each crime to a fixed exact punishment (similarity 0.78)
- Punishment shifted from sovereign vengeance to ensuring no crime goes unpunished (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Revenge requires crime and punishment be separated in time
#contradicts(0.85) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 900 - Certainty, not severity, makes punishment deter because it fixes crime-punishment links in minds
#expands(0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 157 - Codified legal punishment works by creating mental associations of crime and punishment.
#expands(0.85) - Military legal codes linked each crime to a fixed exact punishment
#exemplifies(0.80)