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Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison

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    Michel Foucault

    In this important work, Foucault suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner’s body to his soul. A classic work of theory on the birth of the modern prison.

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