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All these institutions that [...] appear so humanitarian, so medical, and so scientific — the prophylactic centers, youth centers, and schools — are overseen and directed by people who look like social workers, educators, and doctors, but who are, in the end, police [...] All of these professions have as their common function surveillance, the maintenance under lock and key of marginal existences that are neither really criminal nor really pathological.

— Michel Foucault, Interview with Niklaus Meienberg, first published as "Die grosse Einsperrung" (1972)