Well-designed punishment converts crime from glory into misfortune requiring re-education
Evidence
If the recoding of punishment is well done, if the ceremony of mourning takes place as it should, the crime can no longer appear as anything but a misfortune and the criminal as an enemy who must be re-educated into social life. … Discourse will become the vehicle of the law: the constant principle of universal recoding. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 184
Categorization
- XREF: Mirrors the reader’s thesis: discourse/recoding here parallels how telescreens recode thought so subjects internalize the law’s categories. — connects to: Penalties target the inmate’s transformation, not the exchange value of the crime — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 374; Penal detention replaced public execution as a calculated technique for altering behavior. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 400; Public punishment was abolished because it inflamed crowds rather than teaching them. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 397 (+3 more)
Related
- The example shifted from terror to the decipherable lesson of crime and punishment (similarity 0.85)
- Punishment must make the crime-punishment code immediate in act and reality (similarity 0.84)
- Penal reform aimed to increase punishment’s effects while lowering its costs. (similarity 0.80)
- Disciplinary penality is irreducible to the traditional penality of law and eventually invested it. (similarity 0.80)
- Penal codes keep stable while the substance judged shifts from crime to offender (similarity 0.80)
- The respectful ‘humanity’ of the criminal became the target of correction (similarity 0.79)
- Punishment’s severity must aim at future prevention, not past harm (similarity 0.79)
- Punishment doubled into an object relation producing the criminal as a known individual (similarity 0.79)
- Penal detention replaced public execution as a calculated technique for altering behavior. (similarity 0.79)
- Punishment deters when its expected cost merely exceeds crime’s benefit (similarity 0.78)