Command and Persuade : Crime, Law, and the State Across History / Peter Baldwin.

By:

Baldwin, Peter, 1956

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]Description: 466 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780262045629

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

364.9 BAL 23

LOC classification:

HV6251 .B4273 2021

Contents:

Table of Contents Introduction: Crime and the State through the Ages; 1. Crime’s Ever-Expanding Universe; 2. Crime before the State; 3. Crime as a Social Problem; 4. The State as Victim: Treason; 5. Parallel Justice; 6. Why Punish?; 7. How to Punish?; 8. Moderating Punishment; 9. Crimes of Thought; 10. Obliged to Be Good; 11. From Retribution to Prevention; 12. The State as Enforcer: From Polizei to Police; Conclusion: Still Present after All These Years; Acknowledgments; Index

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.

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Table of Contents
Introduction: Crime and the State through the Ages;
1. Crime’s Ever-Expanding Universe;
2. Crime before the State;
3. Crime as a Social Problem;
4. The State as Victim: Treason;
5. Parallel Justice;
6. Why Punish?;
7. How to Punish?;
8. Moderating Punishment;
9. Crimes of Thought;
10. Obliged to Be Good;
11. From Retribution to Prevention;
12. The State as Enforcer: From Polizei to Police;
Conclusion: Still Present after All These Years;
Acknowledgments;
Index

"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.

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