Khoi Nguyen’s Reviews > Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison > Status Update

Different illegality had complicity between groups. Wealth and demographic expansion in later 18 cent = intensive agriculture = restrictive pressure and view as theft

Public execution intolerable. Crimes shift from violence to property and gangs break down. Living standards improve and new laws. Jurisdiction imbalance

Criminals become hero in final speeches and withstanding. Broadsheets disappear, Crime literature is about greatness, newspapers cover crime and people play less role

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.

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

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