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

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Beginning with the emergence of Western penal methods in the seventeenth century, the noted French philosopher explores the role of prisons in society and shows that prisons today, as always, simply define, refine, and perpetuate crime. Reprint.

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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison | Michel 1926-1984 Foucault

A bit of an obvious choice for this prompt!
Foucault examines the prison system in the Western world and the treatment of the #criminal class, whilst reflecting on the institutionalization of society as a whole.
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@batsy @Cinfhen

batsy Brilliant! I've read excerpts, his work is amazing. I should read this in its entirety. 7y

Cinfhen So many books written about the penal system...and still we can‘t get it right 😞😢💔 7y

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