![]() ![]() ![]() Part I presents the emergence of a modern penal system. Whereas imperial China did not regard the time an accused person spent in its jails, while awaiting trial, as being part of the sanction, the post-1905 China gradually came to make prisons the focal point of its system of repression.Ĥ Crime, Punishment and the Prison in Modern China is divided into three main parts. Punishment thus went from being “an art of unbearable sensations” to an “economy of suspended rights” 1.ĢA century later, in China, access to the humanity of punishment was also marked by the widespread introduction of the prison system. This meant that the body was no longer the prime object of sentencing, but rather became the channel through which the imprisoned individual was deprived of his freedom. A handful of decades were enough to have the martyred body and its mise en scène disappear in favour of a "humanisation" of punishment. Only a few years separated his public execution from the drawing up of a projected modern penal code that was completed in 1791. Damiens had been sentenced in Paris on March 2nd 1757. ![]() ![]() 1Every reader of Discipline and Punish has indelibly engraved in their mind the description of Damiens' terrible ordeal at the start of Michel Foucault's work. ![]()
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