This is an investigation about the concept of disciplinary apparatus designed by the French philosopher Michel Foucault. It comes in that is a apparatus and its connection with powerknowledge – which allows it to function as edifying machine subject. Next, it discusses how the apparatus in disciplinary perspective, acts in this endeavor: its organization, its ways of exercising power, the links established between these devices – which characterizes the panoptic society – and also as leverage trained individuals contrary to logical way this apparatus on other goals, which is verified in the analysis of the institution that intensifies this process: the prison.Trata-se de uma investigação acerca do conceito de dispositivo disciplinar conceb...