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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Autor principal: Russell, Steve (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 1993
En: American journal of criminal justice
Año: 1993, Volumen: 17, Número: 1, Páginas: 39-50
Acceso en línea: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Palabras clave:
Silver Bullet
Fourth Amendment
Supreme Court Decision
Slippery Slope
Electronic Monitoring
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Sumario: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.
ISSN:1936-1351
DOI:10.1007/BF02887628