Command and Persuade
Crime, Law, and the State across History
Published on 2. May 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
480 pages
978-0-262-54602-7 (ISBN)
Description
"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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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge (Massachusetts)
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 214 mm
Width: 144 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
588 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-54602-7 (9780262546027)
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10/2021
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Peter Baldwin is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Global Distinguished Professor in the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at NYU. He is the author of The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle, The Narcissism of Minor Differences: How America and Europe Are Alike, Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830–1930, and Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS.
Content
Introduction: Crime and the State through the Ages 1
1. Crime's Ever-Expanding Universe 13
2. Crime before the State 39
3. Crime as a Social Problem 57
4. The State as Victim: Treason 73
5. Parallel Justice 99
6. Why Punish? 107
7. How to Punish? 117
8. Moderating Punishment 139
9. Crimes of Thought 149
10. Obliged to Be Good 173
11. From Retribution to Prevention 197
12. The State as Enforcer: From Polizei to Police 247
Conclusion: Still Present after All These Years 311
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
1. Crime's Ever-Expanding Universe 13
2. Crime before the State 39
3. Crime as a Social Problem 57
4. The State as Victim: Treason 73
5. Parallel Justice 99
6. Why Punish? 107
7. How to Punish? 117
8. Moderating Punishment 139
9. Crimes of Thought 149
10. Obliged to Be Good 173
11. From Retribution to Prevention 197
12. The State as Enforcer: From Polizei to Police 247
Conclusion: Still Present after All These Years 311
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index