Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by A.M. Sheridan-Smith, Michel Foucault

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

A.M. Sheridan-Smith, Michel Foucault

352 pages • first pub 1975 (view editions)

nonfiction history philosophy sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The grisly spectacle of public executions and torture of centuries ago has been replaced by the penal system in western society - but has anything really changed?In his revolutionary work on control and power relations in our public institutions, ...

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