Michel Foucault’s ”The Punitive Society” (Part 1/4)
Theory & Philosophy
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The Origins of Economic Criminality
In France, a guy by the name of Bo-Mets said, a crime is committed. The whole of society is injured in one of its members. Public order must be avenged. He was addressing and conveying the idea that society can be injured. And we can see the roots of this idea in economic law around the same time in the 18th century.
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