The example shifted from terror to the decipherable lesson of crime and punishment
Evidence
In physical torture, the example was based on terror; physical fear, collective horror, images that must be engraved on the memories of the spectators, like the brand on the cheek or shoulder of the condemned man. The example is now based on the lesson, the discourse, the decipherable sign, the representation of public morality. It is no longer the terrifying restoration of sovereignty that will sustain the ceremony of punishment, but the reactivation of the code, the collective reinforcements of the link between the idea of crime and the idea of punishment. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 180
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Punishment doubled into an object relation producing the criminal as a known individual — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 163; Well-designed punishment converts crime from glory into misfortune requiring re-education — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 184; Punishment’s deterrent power migrated from visible spectacle to certainty of apprehension — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 45 (+2 more)
Related
- Punishment doubled into an object relation producing the criminal as a known individual (similarity 0.86)
- Well-designed punishment converts crime from glory into misfortune requiring re-education (similarity 0.85)
- Punishment must make the crime-punishment code immediate in act and reality (similarity 0.85)
- Pain was calibrated to crime, criminal, and victim by a detailed legal code (similarity 0.83)
- Reform punishment shifted example from sovereign display to economic obstacle (similarity 0.83)
- The respectful ‘humanity’ of the criminal became the target of correction (similarity 0.82)
- Punishment’s deterrent power migrated from visible spectacle to certainty of apprehension (similarity 0.82)
- The criminal’s soul is itself judged and punished, not merely analyzed (similarity 0.81)
- Penalty operates through the idea of pain, not pain itself (similarity 0.81)
- Execution sites and torments mirrored the crime’s form and setting (similarity 0.81)
- Penal power shifted its target from the body to the mind (similarity 0.81)
- Certainty, not severity, makes punishment deter because it fixes crime-punishment links in minds (similarity 0.80)
- Punishment deters when its expected cost merely exceeds crime’s benefit (similarity 0.80)
- Penal codes keep stable while the substance judged shifts from crime to offender (similarity 0.80)
- The reformed penalty shifted its target from the body to subtler suffering (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Well-designed punishment converts crime from glory into misfortune requiring re-education
#qualifies(0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 184 - Novels teach that actions have consequences.
#exemplifies(0.85) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 952 - Codified legal punishment works by creating mental associations of crime and punishment.
#expands(0.85) - Punishment’s deterrent power migrated from visible spectacle to certainty of apprehension
#expands(0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 45