But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty. (Michel Foucault)

But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.

Michel Foucault

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