THE PRISON DOCTOR: My time inside Britain’s most notorious jails. THE HONEST, UNBELIEVABLE TRUE STORY AND A SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTOBIOGRAPHY

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It [torture] assured the articulation of the written on the oral, the secret on the public, the procedure of investigation on the operation of the confession; it made it possible to reproduce the crime on the visible body of the criminal; in the same horror, the crime had to be manifested and annulled. It also made the body of the condemned man the place where the vengeance of the sovereign was applied, the anchoring point for a manifestation of power, an opportunity of affirming the dissymmetry of forces." [3] :55 It felt ineluctable to note from citations provided parallels to major historical movements like Enlightenment or French Revolution. Foucault here also connects the other 'emergent' structures of Enlightenment era such as the militia schools, education system, systematic working patterns in (manu)factories and other institutions with the ways of social control with this evolving form of discipling the crime and punishment. Foucault, Michel (1977). Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 978-0-67975-255-4. Note: “primitive accumulation”, despite being a critical concept, is a bit of a misnomer. It comes from Adam Smith’s assumption of an idyllic “previous accumulation” (so, "primitive" simply means "previous", not "barbaric" or "vulgar") where future capitalists first accumulated their capital through hard work. The main ideas of Discipline and Punish can be grouped according to its four parts: torture, punishment, discipline, and prison. [1] Torture [ edit ]

I knew nothing of the work of Michel Foucault. So What prompted me to choose this book? Perhaps, it seems to me, the fact that Michel Foucault was one of the great French intellectuals of the second half of the twentieth century and that he was a reference for many thinkers and philosophers. Suç ve ceza fikirlerinin sıkı sıkıya bağlı olmaları ve ''birbirlerini aralıksız olarak izlemeleri gerekir...Böylece yurttaşlarımızın kafasında fikir bağlantısını kurduğumuzda, onları yönetmekle övünebilirsiniz. Aptal bir müstebit köleleri zincirlerle zorlayabilir; fakat gerçek bir siyaset onları kendi fikirlerinin zincirleriyle çok daha güçlü bir şekilde bağlar; bunun ilk halkası aklın sabit düzlemine bağlıdır; dokusunu bilmezsek ve onu kendi eserimiz sanarsak bu bağ daha da güçlü olur; umutsuzluk ve zaman demirden ve çelikten bağları kemirirler ama fikirlerin alışılmış birliğine karşı hiçbir şey yapamazlar, bunu yalnızca daha da sıkılaştırırlar; ve beynin yumuşak liflerinin üzerinde en sağlam impartorlukların sarsılmaz temeli atımıştır.'' The sprawling web of connections conflicted with what I was learning from the best of physical/natural sciences (how to deal with confirmation bias/heuristics in pattern recognition, using careful study methodologies and meta-analysis): All of the highs and lows of prison life, with heart-warming honesty and anecdotes to make your sides split and your jaw drop in equal measure … Amanda has filled her book full of funny tales that both she and the inmates have had a good giggle at.’ Sunday Express S Magazine

Enacting the revenge upon the convict's body, which the monarch seeks for having been injured by the crime. Foucault argues that the law was considered an extension of the sovereign's body, and so the revenge must take the form of harming the convict's body.

Foucault argues that prison did not become the principal form of punishment just because of the humanitarian concerns of reformists. I didn't expect to love this as much as I did, but I've always had an interest in prisons, which began I'd left school. I had a strong desire to become a social worker, and would be based working in a prison, enabling me to work with the other prison staff, and the prisoners themselves. This never happened because life happened and things change, but I always ponder about the what if? What started as a erudite historicity of incarceration and penal practices ends with underscoring the problem and the power of normalization in the mass society making it all the more 'undemocratic' and its further production of knowledge and 'disciplines.' Are we all prisoners of this constructed human reality?Sahip olmak ve elimizde tutmak istediklerimiz neler? Hangi kaygılar bizi istemediğimiz ne gibi şeyleri yapmaya sürüklüyor? Tüm bunlar üzerine düşünerek, beynimizin en derin dokularına sızan iktidarı üzerimizde işlemez hale getirmeye yaklaşabiliriz belki.