- Key to the control and expansion of the Nation state
- Maintain peace while still regimented under control
- Mobilizing of administrative power
- Storage and control of information
- Disciplinary — self-disciplinary or imprisonment
- Seen as means to conform humans to sense of ideals
- Reframing idea of criminality
- From rebel to deviant
- State attempting to regulate “deviant” groups
- Will lead to populations falling in line
- Monitoring
- Self
- Others
- Neighbors
- e.g. Currently in Texas, you can rat out a neighbor for abortion for a monetary incentive
- Censorship vs. pre-censorship