In order to sustaining discipline in modern society, the government nowadays depending on a type of power that is disciplinary power based on surveillance. Generally, Foucault talked about how disciplinary power increases control over the body of citizens and produces ability for aptitude. Disciplinary power that is exemplified by Bentham's Panopticon showed that how the individuals can be controlled efficiently. In disciplinary power, …show more content…
According to Foucault (as cited in Simon, 2005), panopticon is to induce in the inmate a state of conscious and motivate the person in the inmate to ensure the automatic functioning of power. Besides that that, panopticon is to avoid peoples to break the law. It means the peoples will be aware and disciplined themselves to do wrong things such as steal, dangerous driving and others. Therefore, the inmate will behave in doing something as they were being watched but they never know who is watching them. According to Mathiesen’s (as cited in Crampton & Elden, 2007, p. 254), “concept of the viewer society and the synopticon (the many watching the few), as a discipline of