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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Main Author: Russell, Steve (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 1993
In: American journal of criminal justice
Year: 1993, Volume: 17, Issue: 1, Pages: 39-50
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Keywords:
Silver Bullet
Fourth Amendment
Supreme Court Decision
Slippery Slope
Electronic Monitoring
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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.
ISSN:1936-1351
DOI:10.1007/BF02887628