The penitentiary apparatus substitutes the delinquent for the offender.

Evidence

But this implies that the penitentiary apparatus, with the whole technological programme that accompanies it, brings about a curious substitution: from the hands of justice, it certainly receives a convicted person; but what it must apply itself to is not, of course, the offence, nor even exactly the offender, but a rather different object, one defined by variables which at the outset at least were not taken into account in the sentence, for they were relevant only for a corrective technology. This other character, whom the penitentiary apparatus substitutes for the convicted offender, is the delinquent. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 386

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces Foucault’s key distinction between the convicted offender (a legal person) and the delinquent (an object of corrective knowledge).
• XREF: connects to: The prison was conceived as an apparatus for transforming human beings — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 506; Penalties target the inmate’s transformation, not the exchange value of the crime — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 374; The prison and the delinquent are mutually produced in a single technological ensemble — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 390 (+3 more)

Related

• The prison and the delinquent are mutually produced in a single technological ensemble (similarity 0.90)
• Police, prison, and delinquency form a self-reinforcing circuit producing delinquents (similarity 0.89)
• Penitentiary technique judges the criminal’s affinity with crime, not the act itself (similarity 0.85)
• The prison’s apparent failure is actually its designed success at producing delinquency (similarity 0.85)
• Classifying the delinquent as a pathological subject is inseparable from politically isolating delinquency (similarity 0.85)
• Prison integrated correctional transformation into legal detention from the start (similarity 0.84)
• The prison’s failure, reform, and discipline form one simultaneous carceral system (similarity 0.84)
• Penalties target the inmate’s transformation, not the exchange value of the crime (similarity 0.83)
• The rise of the prison institutionalized the power to punish (similarity 0.83)
• The carceral regime extracts knowledge that converts punishment into a productive operation. (similarity 0.83)
• Penal codes keep stable while the substance judged shifts from crime to offender (similarity 0.82)
• The penal apparatus morally reeducated the poor into legalism (similarity 0.82)
• The prison was conceived as an apparatus for transforming human beings (similarity 0.81)
• Penal reform shifted punishment from the act to the offender’s character (similarity 0.81)
• Fabricating delinquency gave criminal justice authority through a scientific horizon of truth (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• The prison and the delinquent are mutually produced in a single technological ensemble #corroborates (0.90) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 390
• Police, prison, and delinquency form a self-reinforcing circuit producing delinquents #corroborates (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 432
• The prison was conceived as an apparatus for transforming human beings #expands (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 506
• Penalties target the inmate’s transformation, not the exchange value of the crime #expands (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 374
• The prison’s failure, reform, and discipline form one simultaneous carceral system #corroborates (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 418