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Dear HN audience. For almost all of the topics discussed here, if you haven't already, please go read this book: Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Bi
by olavolav 9y ago
Dear HN audience. For almost all of the topics discussed here, if you haven't already, please go read this book:
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison [1]
The seminal book on questions like: Where do prisons come from? Why did anyone ever think that they were a good idea? Do they work?
Highly recommended
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discipline_and_Punish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discipline_and_Punish
- Double_a_92 9y agoPeople that did bad things are not running around freely anymore... It's not rocket science ._.
- olavolav 9y agoWell, I think the OP should give you the idea that if your goal is (for example) to reduce violent crime rates overall, then the answer might be more complicated than that...