Khoi Nguyen’s Reviews > Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison > Status Update
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Truths in trial: circumstantial, direct, varying levels of doubt. Do they add up? People aware of Torture inaccuracy. Torture regulated and a judicial game of trial
— Aug 28, 2026 06:02PM
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Khoi Nguyen
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Different illegality had complicity between groups. Wealth and demographic expansion in later 18 cent = intensive agriculture = restrictive pressure and view as theft
— 6 hours, 27 min ago
Khoi Nguyen
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Law reform = public power instead of sovereignty. Punish better and power into social body
— 6 hours, 40 min ago
Khoi Nguyen
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Public execution intolerable. Crimes shift from violence to property and gangs break down. Living standards improve and new laws. Jurisdiction imbalance
— 6 hours, 43 min ago
Khoi Nguyen
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Criminals become hero in final speeches and withstanding. Broadsheets disappear, Crime literature is about greatness, newspapers cover crime and people play less role
— Aug 28, 2026 06:48PM
Khoi Nguyen
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Body punishment = visible condemnation and confession, public torture tied to crime, form of truth as god forgives or doesn’t? Political purpose: power of sovereign. People punish bad executioners. Public torture not ashamed of atrocity. People required for performance and cancel gallows executions.
— Aug 28, 2026 06:31PM
Khoi Nguyen
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Punishment transitions from public torture of body to addressing soul. Forced labor continues after 19th century as punishment w/ prison conditions being nicer than poor people. Crime judgement based on appropriateness: truth and madness
— Aug 28, 2026 05:51PM