《Discipline and Punish》简介：

In the middle ages there were gaols and dungeons, but punishment was for the most part a spectacle. The economic changes and growing popular dissent of the eighteenth century made necessary a more systematic control over the individual members of society, and this in effect meant a change from punishment, which chastised the body, to reform, which touched the soul.

Foucault shows in fascinating detail the development of the Western system of prisons, police organizations, administrative and legal hierarchies of social control — and the growth of disciplinary society as a whole. He also reveals that the comparison between a school and a prison is not purely facetious — prisons, schools, factories, barracks and hospitals all share a common organization, in which it is possible to control the use of an individual's time and space hour by hour.

《Discipline and Punish》摘录：

这样，在最重大的案件中就形成一种惯例，即在证据不足时使用酷刑，在酷刑失败后，司法官可以继续调查。疑犯并不因经受住了酷刑而被宣布无罪，但他的胜利至少使他免于判处死刑。法官依然掌握着除了最后一张王牌以外的一切——“死亡前的一切”。因此，在审理重大犯罪案件时，常常有人向司法官建议，既然已经有足以定罪的证据就不必给疑犯动刑，否则如果疑犯挺住了酷刑，法官就无权对死有余辜的疑犯判处死刑。在这种较量中，司法正义可能会成为输家。