+1 862 207 3288 Punishment, when appraised purely historically, had for a long time been viewed as a progression from the arbitrary and cruel methods that were meted out in the early eighteenth century to the reforms that followed, to leave us with a quite different situation a hundred years later. Any sociological discussion of punishment would tend to be limited to the work of Durkheim, but there began a revision of this in the 1960`s with the arrival of works on the subject by social historians from many different fields: David Rothman and Michael Ignatieff both provided contributions to the debate but the most revealing was that of Michel Foucault….(short extract)
