Foucaldian

Question 1

Who is Foucault?

Answer 1

French philosopher, historian and political activist

Question 2

Foucault key points of attack and critique ?

Answer 2

• Reason and the enlightenment
• Science and knowledge of “man”
• Freedom and the modern individual
• Law, justice and government

Question 3

Why Foucault?

Answer 3

• Devastating critique of mainstream criminology
• Contribution to critical criminology & critical crime history
• Prison Activism

Question 4

Foucault Analysis of ……….

Answer 4

Power, force, justice, law, delinquency, normality, police, prison, repression, marginalisation, surveilance and much more.

Question 5

Why was he considered to be one of the most controversial thinkers of the 20th century?

Answer 5

• Some Marxists called him a danger to Western democracy
• Some accused him of being no different from Hitler
• Right-wingers often called him a dangerous left-winger anarchist

Question 6

How did Foucault’s Discipline and Punish “save critical criminology”?

Answer 6

• rescued/corrected Marxism

- from the factory to the social body

Question 7

What alternative research routes did Foucault offer for dissatisfied critical criminologists?

Answer 7

• Technocratic/administrative
• Positivistic and apolitical
• State-sanctioned

Question 8

Foucault’s view on the origin of criminology?

Answer 8

Believed:

• Criminology emerged from the prison
• Inevitably tied to the power to punish

Question 9

Why is it said that the prison is a criminological lab?

Answer 9

• Criminology is made possible by the prison because in it a positive knowledge of delinquents came to be established.
• Offenders turned into a unitary field of objects that scientific knowledge authenticates

Question 10

In “Discipline and Punish”, Foucault makes a number of controversial claims about punishment, what are they?

Answer 10

• Punishment is about power and government (not justice)
• Punishment is a political tactic (not simply a legal mechanism)
• Punishment is productive (not just repressive)

Question 11

“Discipline and punish” =

Answer 11

• A genealogy of modern punitive power
• A critique of punitive rationality
• An analysis of power more than a history of punishment

Question 12

The history of punishment = a set of developing relationships between?:

Answer 12

• Power
• knowledge
• the body