Command and persuade : crime, law, and the state across history / / Peter Baldwin
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| Autore: |
Baldwin Peter <1956->
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| Titolo: |
Command and persuade : crime, law, and the state across history / / Peter Baldwin
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2021] |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina: | 364.9 |
| Soggetto topico: | Crime - History |
| Punishment - History | |
| Criminal law - History | |
| Criminal justice, Administration of - History | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | HUMANITIES/History |
| POLITICAL SCIENCE / Law Enforcement | |
| LAW / Legal History | |
| LAW / Criminal Law / General | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [357]-444) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "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"-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Command and persuade |
| ISBN: | 0-262-36149-3 |
| 0-262-36150-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910557696803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
The MIT Press