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Command and persuade : crime, law, and the state across history / Peter Baldwin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baldwin, Peter, 1956- author.
- Series:
- The MIT Press
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crime--History.
- Crime.
- Punishment--History.
- Punishment.
- Criminal law--History.
- Criminal law.
- Criminal justice, Administration of--History.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge The MIT Press 2021
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]
- Language Note:
- English
- 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
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [357]-444) and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-36149-3
- 0-262-36150-7
- OCLC:
- 1202266610
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