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Command and persuade : crime, law, and the state across history / Peter Baldwin.
Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]Description: 466 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780262045629
- 364.9 23
- HV6251 .B4273 2021
Contents:
Summary: "This history of crime and punishment spans 3000 years and multiple continents to reveal the larger patterns in how the state has maintained order and enforced law over the centuries"-- Provided by publisher.
Introduction: Crime and the state through the ages -- Crime's ever-expanding universe -- Crime before the state -- Crime as a social problem -- The state as victim : treason -- Parallel justice -- Why punish? -- How to punish -- Moderating punishment -- Crimes of thought -- Obliged to be good -- From retribution to prevention -- The state as enforcer : from Polizei to police -- Conclusion: Still present after all these years.
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NLS | 364.9 BAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-444) and index.
Introduction: Crime and the state through the ages -- Crime's ever-expanding universe -- Crime before the state -- Crime as a social problem -- The state as victim : treason -- Parallel justice -- Why punish? -- How to punish -- Moderating punishment -- Crimes of thought -- Obliged to be good -- From retribution to prevention -- The state as enforcer : from Polizei to police -- Conclusion: Still present after all these years.
"This history of crime and punishment spans 3000 years and multiple continents to reveal the larger patterns in how the state has maintained order and enforced law over the centuries"-- Provided by publisher.