Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Michel Foucault with Alan Sheridan (Translator)

333 pages first pub 1975 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Before the early 19th century, European ideas of crime and punishment tended to involve very public displays of the power of the monarch and the power of the state against the offending individual. Nowhere was this tendency more evident than in th...

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