The respectful ‘humanity’ of the criminal became the target of correction

Evidence

In the worst of murderers, there is one thing, at least, to be respected when one punishes: his ‘humanity’. The day was to come, in the nineteenth century, when this ‘man’, discovered in the criminal, would become the target of penal intervention, the object that it claimed to correct and transform, the domain of a whole series of ‘criminological’ sciences and strange ‘penitentiary’ practices. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 126

Categorization

• XREF: This inversion — humanity as both limit and target — is the mirror of how panoptic surveillance claims benevolence while disciplining the subject. Connects to the reader’s Foucault/Bentham synthesis. — connects to: The criminal’s soul is itself judged and punished, not merely analyzed — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 58; Penal reform shifted punishment from the act to the offender’s character — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 160; Punishment doubled into an object relation producing the criminal as a known individual — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 163 (+6 more)

Related

• The criminal’s soul is itself judged and punished, not merely analyzed (similarity 0.87)
• Penal reform shifted punishment from the act to the offender’s character (similarity 0.87)
• The reformed penalty shifted its target from the body to subtler suffering (similarity 0.84)
• Penal codes keep stable while the substance judged shifts from crime to offender (similarity 0.84)
• Punishment doubled into an object relation producing the criminal as a known individual (similarity 0.84)
• Modern penal practice replaced the act-question with the identity-question (similarity 0.83)
• Modern punishment targets the soul rather than the body (similarity 0.83)
• Punishment’s severity must aim at future prevention, not past harm (similarity 0.83)
• Penal power shifted from judging acts to interrogating the criminal’s identity. (similarity 0.83)
• Penal reform sought not less punishment but more universal, deeper social control (similarity 0.82)
• The example shifted from terror to the decipherable lesson of crime and punishment (similarity 0.82)
• Reformers reframed punishment as protection rather than vengeance (similarity 0.81)
• Penal reform arose from a policy shift, not new humanitarian feeling (similarity 0.81)
• Humane punishment is really an economic regulation of power effects (similarity 0.81)
• The penal apparatus morally reeducated the poor into legalism (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Penal reform shifted punishment from the act to the offender’s character #expands (0.95) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 160
• Punishment doubled into an object relation producing the criminal as a known individual #corroborates (0.90) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 163
• Penal power shifted its target from the body to the mind #expands (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 162
• Well-designed punishment converts crime from glory into misfortune requiring re-education #expands (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 184
• The civilian penal code aimed to terrify subjects into submission rather than reform them #contradicts (0.75)
• The reformed penalty shifted its target from the body to subtler suffering #corroborates (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 43