[Extra] Means for monitoring prisoners - Focusing panoptikon

Means for monitoring prisoners

Focusing panoptikon

    Panopticon is one synthesized meaning to mean "all" and "pan" and "see" the "opticon". When the translation, it's the sense of "see everyone". For the purpose of monitoring the prisoners originally, Germi Bentham philosopher of the United Kingdom, is a jurist (Jeremy Bentham) was designed for the first time in 1791.

   The prison was designed to make a high watchtower in a circular space in the center, along the circumference of the outside of the central watchtower, to create a room of prisoners. In addition, in the dark all the time, watchtower in the center so that they can not to where the line of sight of the monitor to be monitored by the center with bright or headed, prisoners know the room of prisoners. As this occurs, the prisoners would be that it now has the feel themselves that are being monitored at all times, in the end, prisoners internalized and monitoring discipline, to monitor itself.

   Panopticon refers to a prison that the prisoners themselves to monitor their own even without a monitor. However, after Bentham was designed, did not receive the attention, but the philosopher Foucault in France (Michel Foucault), the principle of the monitoring system of the Panopticon is the public at large in the "punishment Discipline and Punish and monitoring" his book in 1975 Noting that it has changed to (panopticism) fan optimistic fascism, which is a basic principle norms of society and to drill down to, began renewed attention.

   Then, the possibility of being able information technology is developing rapidly, by using a digital certificate and various other electronic residents card and electronic health policy, power institutions to freely control the people have also been raised.