Systems of punishment correlate strictly with systems of production
Evidence
Rusche and Kirchheimer relate the different systems of punishment with the systems of production within which they operate: thus, in a slave economy, punitive mechanisms serve to provide an additional labour force – and to constitute a body of ‘civil’ slaves in addition to those provided by war or trading; with feudalism, at a time when money and production were still at an early stage of development, we find a sudden increase in corporal punishments – the body being in most cases the only property accessible; the penitentiary (the Hôpital Général, the Spinhuis or the Rasphuis), forced labour and the prison factory appear with the development of the mercantile economy. But the industrial system requires a free market in labour and, in the nineteenth century, the role of forced labour in the mechanisms of punishment diminishes accordingly and ‘corrective’ detention takes its place. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 71
Categorization
- XREF: A causal schema that inverts under Oceania: Nineteen Eighty-Four’s penal practices are detached from production, the micro-physics having been captured by the Party for social control alone. — connects to: A punishment form tied to early capitalism cannot claim eternal validity; Sentence individualization and exhaustive codification require each other in the economy of punishment — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 159; Time-based prison sentences mirror the commodification of labor time — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 111 (+1 more)
Related
- Time-based prison sentences mirror the commodification of labor time (similarity 0.83)
- The rise of the prison institutionalized the power to punish (similarity 0.81)
- Penal labour’s real purpose is power relations, not production or skills (similarity 0.80)
- Sentence individualization and exhaustive codification require each other in the economy of punishment (similarity 0.79)
- The prison form preexisted and supplied the model for legal punishment (similarity 0.79)
- Prisons resemble schools, factories, and hospitals because one disciplinary model unifies them (similarity 0.79)
- Punishment’s meaning is fashioned through institutional symbiotic relationships (similarity 0.79)
- The birth of the prison is analyzed only within the French penal system. (similarity 0.79)
- Imprisonment emerged with capitalism’s need for disciplined manpower (similarity 0.79)
- The carceral regime extracts knowledge that converts punishment into a productive operation. (similarity 0.79)
- The prison’s failure, reform, and discipline form one simultaneous carceral system (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Time-based prison sentences mirror the commodification of labor time
#exemplifies(0.85) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 111 - A punishment form tied to early capitalism cannot claim eternal validity
#expands(0.82) - Sentence individualization and exhaustive codification require each other in the economy of punishment
#expands(0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 159