In Discipline and Punish, Foucault’s project isto describe the history of the prison. From 1757to 1837, what two different types of punishment are described by Foucault?Discuss
Instructions: Read Chapter One of Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish and answer the following study questions.
Questions:
1. In Discipline and Punish, Foucault’s project is to describe the history of the prison. From 1757to 1837, what two different types of punishment are described by Foucault?
2. Comparing modern incarceration to medieval punishment,Foucault states, “punishment willtend to become the most hidden part of the penal process”.What are the consequences of this?
3. What different ideas about capital punishment are represented by the guillotine?
4. On page sixteen, Foucault notes that under theold system of punishment, the target was the body. Under the emerging penal system based on incarceration,what is the new target of punishment?
5. From pages seventeen to twenty-four Foucault describes the emergence of modern criminal justice as a science (i.e. criminology). After thathe established four rules for his study of thebirth of the prison. What are they?Answer in a paragraph
6. Select one of the four rules from question five above and explain what you think Foucault meant by this rule.
