The new outlawry and Foucault’s Panoptic nightmare
Michel Foucault seized upon Bentham’s “Panopticon” prison design as a metaphor to illustrate the mechanisms of social control in post-industrial society. In our recent rush to invent alternatives to incarceration, we have created a new and burgeoning class of outlaws, persons for whom privacy is not...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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1993
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American journal of criminal justice
Year: 1993, Volume: 17, Issue: 1, Pages: 39-50 |
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Summary: | Michel Foucault seized upon Bentham’s “Panopticon” prison design as a metaphor to illustrate the mechanisms of social control in post-industrial society. In our recent rush to invent alternatives to incarceration, we have created a new and burgeoning class of outlaws, persons for whom privacy is not a legally cognizable right. Combined with Supreme Court decisions finding surveillance of even innocent citizens to be constitutionally benign, our well-intentioned efforts to reduce prison populations are close to bringing Foucault’s metaphor to literal reality. |
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ISSN: | 1936-1351 |
DOI: | 10.1007/BF02887628 |