Mohammad Ali Haji Dehabadi , Mahdi Taheri
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.