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Command and persuade : crime, law, and the state across history / Peter Baldwin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baldwin, Peter, 1956- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crime--History.
- Crime.
- History.
- 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, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- 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:
- 1 Crime's Ever-Expanding Universe p. 13
- 2 Crime before the State p. 39
- 3 Crime as a Social Problem p. 57
- 4 The State as Victim: Treason p. 73
- 5 Parallel Justice p. 99
- 6 Why Punish? p. 107
- 7 How to Punish? p. 117
- 8 Moderating Punishment p. 139
- 9 Crimes of Thought p. 149
- 10 Obliged to Be Good p. 173
- 11 From Retribution to Prevention p. 197
- 12 The State as Enforcer: From Polizei to Police p. 247.
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 0262361507
- 9780262361507
- OCLC:
- 1202266610
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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