Foucault Discipline And Punish Summary

Words: 635
Pages: 3

Michel Foucault Discipline and Punish book explains the history of the criminal justice system in four parts, Torture, Punishment, Discipline, and Prison. Foucault ends with the ideal of the Carceral being the most effective and imperative form of justice and rehabilitation.
Foucault opens up his book by describing the gruesome unjust form of penal corrective action of the torture of Robert Francois Damiens. Robert was convicted for the assassination attempt of the King. Within this display of ruling the public was there to witness the ruling playing out. Public torture in these times were ritual observance intended to fulfill confessions, to ward off would be criminals, and to show the public ultimate power of the sovereign. Ideology the