Chapter 6
In Michel Foucault’s essay Illegalities and Delinquency, he states that “the prison cannot
fail to produce delinquents” (Foucalt, 2010) and I agree with him
yet there is still a reluctance to get rid of that system altogether. I think this is so because we, as a society,
just don’t know what to do with people that don’t follow rules and act out with
violence and malicious intent. We would
rather lock them away and put them in a system that just perpetuates this type
of behavior instead of trying to figure out the reason why they are acting in
this manner. What we need is to go back
to the days when we allowed God to be part of our children’s lives and we let
parents discipline their children without ridicule and judgment. Sure, there are people that take advantage of
this and are insensitive to other’s beliefs about God or take discipline to the
extreme but I do believe that the good outweighs the bad. We need to bring back love and respect to the
forefront of each and every person and then only then will we see a decline in
this negative behavior.
Foucalt, M. (2010). Illegalities and Delinquency. In
M. Krasny, & M. Sokolik, Sound Ideas (p. 457). New York:
McGraw-Hill.
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