Write an essay discussing Discipline and Punish as a work of social history understood as "the effective history of the present." In writing on this topic, you should cover at least TWO or THREE of the following topics: The most important differences between rival regimes of punishment The significance of Foucault’s claim that "Discipline ‘makes’ individuals?" The character and motivations of penal reform debates in the 19th century Foucault’s account of the spread of the disciplines and how it differs from other accounts of historical transformation His account of the functionality of imprisonment as the main form of punishment for a disciplinary society featuring a ‘carceral continuum’?
