Sociological Analysis of Physical Punishment Changes in Afghanistan: Emphasizing on Michel Foucault's Theory ofPower Technology

Abstract

 Michel Foucault sees the institution of punishment as a means of producing and sustaining power. The purpose of this study is to investigate the sociological effect of power developments on criminal reactions and to provide an answer to the question of how the transition from power based on violence to bureaucracy-based power has had on physical criminal reactions in Afghanistan. The results indicate that in the power based on violence model, since it is not possible to use techniques to produce truth and discipline, corporal punishment is the most widely used, but in institutional power criminal violence is reduced, it is replaced by administrative and disciplinary measures. The present research has analyzed the sources of criminalization using descriptive-analytical research method, then the theoretical framework, Foucault's theory of power technology and at the end of the relationship between power patterns and corporal punishments in Afghanistan.