Command and persuade : crime, law, and the state across history / Peter Baldwin.
"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"--
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2021]
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Table of 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.