Command and persuade : crime, law, and the state across history / Peter Baldwin.
By: Baldwin, Peter [author]
Language: English Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]Description: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780262045629; 9780262361507; 9780262361491Subject(s): Crime -- History | Punishment -- History | Criminal law -- History | Criminal justice, Administration of -- HistoryGenre/Form: HistoryDDC classification: 364.9 LOC classification: HV6251 | .B4273 2021ebOnline resources: Full text is available at the Directory of Open Access Books. Click here to view.| Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references 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
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