Michel Foucault - Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

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Translated from the French by Alan Sheridan

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First published as Surveiller et Punir: Naissance de la prison by ditions Gallimard 1975
This translation first published by Allen Lane 1977
Published in Peregrine Books 1979
Reprinted in Penguin Books 1991
Published in Penguin Classics 2020

Copyright ditions Gallimard, 1975
Translation copyright Alan Sheridan, 1977

The moral rights of the author and translator have been asserted

ISBN: 978-0-141-99133-7

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Medal commemorating Louis XIVs first military review in 1668.

Handwriting model.

Plan of the Panopticon by J. Bentham, 1843.

Plan for a penitentiary by N. Harou-Romain, 1840.

The Maison centrale at Rennes in 1877.

Interior of the penitentiary at Stateville, United States, twentieth century.

Bedtime at the reformatory of Mettray.

Lecture on the evils of alcoholism in the auditorium of Fresnes prison.

Steam machine for the celeriferous correction of young boys and girls.

Lorthopdie ou lart de prvenir et de corriger dans les enfants les difformits du corps (Orthopaedics or the art of preventing and correcting deformities of the body in children) by N. Andry, 1749.

Medal commemorating Louis XIVs first military review in 1668
(B.N. Cabinet des medailles). Cf. p. 188. Handwriting model
(Collections historiques de II.N.R.D.P.). Cf. p. 152. J. Bentham. Plan of the Panopticon (The Works of Jeremy Bentham, ed. Bowring, vol. IV. 1843, 172-3). Cf. p. 201. N. Harou-Romain. Plan for a penitentiary, 1840. A prisoner, in his cell, kneeling at prayer before the central inspection tower. Cf. p. 250. The Maison centrale at Rennes in 1877. Cf. p. 250. Interior of the penitentiary at Stateville, United States, twentieth century. Cf. p. 250. Bedtime at the reformatory of Mettray. Cf. p. 294. Lecture on the evils of alcoholism in the auditorium of Fresnes prison. Steam machine for the celeriferous correction of young boys and girls. Fathers and Mothers. Uncles and Aunts, Guardian Masters and Mistresses of boarding schools and all those who have lazy, greedy, disobedient, rebellious, insolent, quarrelsome, tale-bearing, chattering, irreligious children, or children having any other defect, are hereby informed that Mr Bogeyman and Mrs Bricabrac have just set up in every mairie of the city of Paris a machine similar to the one represented in this engraving and are ready to accept all naughty children in need of correction in their establishments each day, from midday to two oclock. Mr Werewolf, Coalman Scarecrow, Eat-without-Hunger and Mrs Wildcat, Spiteful Slag and Drink-without-Thirst, friends and relations of Mr Bogeyman and Mrs Bricabrac, will, for a small sum, set up similar machines to be sent into provincial towns and will themselves supervise their operation. The cheapness of correction given by the steam machine and the surprising effects that it produces will persuade parents to avail themselves of it as often as the bad behaviour of their children will require it. We also take incorrigible children as boarders; they are fed on bread and water. Engraving of the late eighteenth century (Collections historiques de II.N.R.D.P.). N. Andry, Lorthopdie ou lart de prvenir et de corriger dans les enfants les difformits du corps (Orthopaedics or the art of preventing and correcting deformities of the body in children). 1749.

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