![]() ![]() ![]() In a capitalist society, land is owned by private citizens rather than, as in a feudal society, by the monarch. ![]() More so than murder, a “crime of blood,” people worried about things like theft, or “crimes of fraud.” One of the things that made this possible was the rise of a sense of private property. A large part of this was the rise of crimes against property. Moreover, the public began to conceive of crimes as being injuries to themselves, not just the monarch. But it increasingly faces the anger of the people, or general public, when they feel the monarch is acting unjustly. This made such spectacles a “dangerous confrontation between the violence of the sovereign and the violence of the people.” An execution is supposed to be sovereign violence, or an exercise of the monarch’s control over life and death. He begins by noting a surge in petitions, in the late 1700s, against torture, executions, and other public spectacles of pain. The second part of Discipline and Punish, titled “Punishment,” goes into more historical detail about the larger transformation Foucault discussed in the previous part, ranging from roughly 1750-1850. ![]()
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