Staged ceremony can substitute for added real punishment to deter others.
Evidence
Since it is only apparent punishment that acts upon others, upon their minds, it is not necessary, in order to increase the effect of punishment on others, to supplement the real punishment with some ‘additional real punishment’ – the same effect on others can be achieved by ‘other less expensive means’, namely, by staged ‘solemnities distinct from punishment itself, and accompanying the execution of it’. — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 16
Categorization
- XREF: Dramatization over substance mirrors the panopticon’s architecture — visible inspection replacing actual watching. Ties to the reader’s thesis about symbolic presence. — connects to: Penal detention replaced public execution as a calculated technique for altering behavior. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 400; Feigned punishment could deter crime without real suffering — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 28; The spectacle of punishment produced substitutions and misrecognitions of identity — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 395 (+5 more)
Related
- Feigned punishment could deter crime without real suffering (similarity 0.87)
- Apparent punishment outweighs real suffering whenever the innocent outnumber the punished. (similarity 0.84)
- Punishment is designed to maximize apparent suffering while minimizing real pain. (similarity 0.83)
- Punishment’s deterrent power migrated from visible spectacle to certainty of apprehension (similarity 0.81)
- Penalty operates through the idea of pain, not pain itself (similarity 0.81)
- Penal law design requires theatrical stagecraft (similarity 0.80)
- Penal detention replaced public execution as a calculated technique for altering behavior. (similarity 0.80)
- Pre-prison punishment aimed at spectators as public spectacle, not at reforming the punished. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Feigned punishment could deter crime without real suffering
#corroborates(0.95) — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 28 - Pre-prison punishment aimed at spectators as public spectacle, not at reforming the punished.
#corroborates(0.88) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 102 - Apparent punishment outweighs real suffering whenever the innocent outnumber the punished.
#corroborates(0.85) — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 14 - Penal detention replaced public execution as a calculated technique for altering behavior.
#expands(0.82) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 400 - The spectacle of punishment produced substitutions and misrecognitions of identity
#expands(0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 395 - The threat of publicity substitutes for formal judicial enforcement.
#corroborates(0.80) — Lisa Bernestein, Opting out of the Legal System, 107 - Penal reform aimed to increase punishment’s effects while lowering its costs.
#expands(0.78) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 135