However, a deeper understanding of Foucault's analysis reveals how our judicial system's incompetence wasn't our problem, but our social structure and society is what brings us down in an attempt to safeguard the government's authority and power and produce 'obedient' citizens. How we are leading lives where we are under constant surveillance and the pressure to conform to the 'norm.' He points out how even the sighest digression from what is structured to be 'normal' by the society puts us into the limelight and, for most parts into trouble. However, Micheal Focualt analysed Bentham's idea of the panopticon and stated how we live in a society that is being evolved into the same panopticon structure. The deterrent theory soon got based on Bentham's idea of the panopticon, which is still followed today. The theory aimed to achieve a fundamental shift from bodily harm to the transformation, discipline, and control of the mind and body of the criminal to be a better fit in society. We shifted from the deterrent theory to the reformative theory due to its threat posed to the power of the sovereign. The different kinds of theories of punishment have been hugely debated over time.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |