American humanists, untutored in sociology, are knocked out by Foucault’s daring: analyze crime and punishment, prisons and penal codes! Gee, I wish I’d thought of that! Well, Foucault didn’t think of it either. It’s in Durkheim’s The Division of Labour in Society. (SAAC 1992)
Canadian, yes, but still part of that region that Joe Garreau in The Nine Nations of North America identified as a cultural continuum from Toronto to New York. Still within the "North American" culture zone, and thinking that is very specific to that zone.