Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Synopsis

'imaginative, illuminating and innovative' the new york times book reviewthe grisly spectacle of public executions and torture of centuries ago has been replaced by the penal system in western society - but has anything really changed?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, michel foucault argues that the development of prisons, police organizations and legal hierarchies has merely changed the focus of domination from our bodies to our souls.