Reform-era punishment was future-directed, aimed at prevention
Evidence
In the first instance, there is a difference in the temporal direction of punishment. The ‘reformatories’ were mechanisms directed towards the future; they too were intended not to efface a crime, but to prevent its repetition. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 204
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Reformers reframed punishment as protection rather than vengeance — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 489; Punishment’s severity must aim at future prevention, not past harm — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 152; Reformers shifted punishment’s aim from expiation to prevention — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 204 (+4 more)
Related
- Reformers shifted punishment’s aim from expiation to prevention (similarity 0.92)
- Reformers reframed punishment as protection rather than vengeance (similarity 0.92)
- Punishment’s severity must aim at future prevention, not past harm (similarity 0.91)
- Reform punishment shifted example from sovereign display to economic obstacle (similarity 0.89)
- Penal reform sought not less punishment but more universal, deeper social control (similarity 0.85)
- Penal reform aimed to increase punishment’s effects while lowering its costs. (similarity 0.84)
- Penal reform succeeded by managing illegalities differentially, not eliminating them (similarity 0.83)
- Penal reform arose from a policy shift, not new humanitarian feeling (similarity 0.83)
- Reformers sought to redistribute punitive power throughout the whole social body. (similarity 0.83)
- Penal reform shifted punishment from the act to the offender’s character (similarity 0.81)
- Penal codes keep stable while the substance judged shifts from crime to offender (similarity 0.81)
- Punishment shifted from sovereign vengeance to ensuring no crime goes unpunished (similarity 0.81)
- Late-nineteenth-century penal reforms shifted punishment from the offense to the offender (similarity 0.81)
- Modern universal imprisonment was not the reformers’ original design (similarity 0.80)
- Reformers designed punishment as a public didactic spectacle for all citizens (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Punishment’s deterrent power migrated from visible spectacle to certainty of apprehension
#corroborates(0.88) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 45 - Military punishment reform moved from spectacular severity toward certainty of punishment
#corroborates(0.85) - Penal reform shifted punishment from the act to the offender’s character
#expands(0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 160 - Punishment shifted from sovereign vengeance to ensuring no crime goes unpunished
#qualifies(0.78)