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Most of us think of punishment as an ugly display of power. But punishment also tells us something about the ideals and aspirations of a people and their government. How a state punishes reveals whether or not it is confident in its own legitimacy and sovereignty. Punishment and Political Order exam...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McBride, Keally D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2007.
Colección:Law, meaning, and violence.
Temas:
Punishment > Philosophy.
Punishment > Government policy.
Social control.
Sovereignty.
Punishment > Government policy > United States.
Social Control, Formal
Contrôle social.
Souveraineté.
sovereignty.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
Punishment > Government policy
Punishment > Philosophy
Social control
Sovereignty
Strafjustiz
Politisches System
Rechtsphilosophie
Strafe
Politische Ordnung
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Strange brew
  • punishment and political ideals
  • The whip of utopia : on punishment and political vision
  • "Man's life is but a prison" : human reason, secular political order, and the punishments of God
  • Earthly divinity : punishment and the requirements of sovereignty
  • Severing the sanguinary empire : punishment and early American democratic idealism
  • Punishment in liberal regimes
  • Hitched to the post : prison labor, choice, and citizenship
  • Punishment and the spiral of disorder.

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