Penal Power and Colonial Rule

Penal Power and the Colonial Rule argues that Foucault¿s alignment of sovereign, disciplinary and governmental power will need to be re-read and re-balanced to account for its operation in the colonial sphere. Proposing a radical revision of the Foucauldian thesis that criminological knowledge emerged in the service of a new form of power ¿ discipline ¿ this text opens up an unduly neglected area of research.