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Question 1) How does Foucault construe the new regimes of control as forms of punishment? What are some aspects of the new "humane" penal system?
Question 2) How can we explain Foucault's critique of contemporary penal practice and institution from the perspectives of Dostoyevsky's ideas?
What are some examples from our times, which exemplify Foucault's Panopticon? Remember the way the panopticon functions as you answer this question. It operates with auto-power, and control becomes self-control. Technology amplified the use of panopticon as in video cameras in buildings. There are many other examples.
Question 3) What are some central ideas on crime and punishment and all the related phenomena?
Question 4) What are some common threads in all the literature we read? How
do authors differ in their approaches to human existence and society in general and to crime and punishment in particular?
Question 5) What are your thoughts on the penal system, crimes, and punishments that occur at the micro (family, school, etc.) or macro-levels (penal institurions, the justice system.)?