Read the attached op-ed from the New York Times, "Are you in a gang database?" by Stefano Bloch, then an assistant professor at University of Arizona. Apart from the required readings, for this week you will need to have some familiarity with the sources about the death penalty that are available in the Chapter 5 module for Vago and Barkan on Blackboard. (They are called "Video and articles via the web...")

"Careful control of every aspect of a life can represent a more complete exercise of power than the massive display of a death." - From Lydia AlixFillingham, _Foucault For Beginners_.

Discuss this statement, paying especial attention to the words "careful control of every aspect of a life",as it applies to Bloch's op-ed about gang databases.

Here are some questions to think about as you compose the three paragraphs necessary for the oringal contribution:

1. What aspects of life does the gang database described by Bloch attempt to control?

2. How does a baby end up on a gang database?

3. What does a baby ending up on a gang database tell you about the institution and officials who constructed the database?

4. Do you think a baby ending up on the gang database tells you anything about the baby?

5. While the gang database might be an example of controlling lives, does it seemcarefulto you?

6. And what's the point about the "massive display of death" again....? (Here you need to pay attention to the execution of the regicide Damiens which Foucault recounts inDiscipline and Punish and which is described by Fillingham. The torture and execution of Damiens became unthinkable by the end of the 18th century.)

Your postsmust adhere to the readings (Vago and Barkan, Fillingham, Bloch) and other sources available in this week's module.

Bloch----> (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/opinion/los-angeles-gang-database.html)