Command and Persuade : Crime, Law, and the State across History (Record no. 70424)
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| Personal name | Baldwin, Peter |
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| Title | Command and Persuade : Crime, Law, and the State across History |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Cambridge |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | The MIT Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2021 |
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| Extent | 1 electronic resource (480 p.) |
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| Summary, etc. | Why, when we have been largely socialized into good behavior, are there more laws that govern our behavior than ever before? Levels of violent crime have been in a steady decline for centuries—for millennia, even. Over the past five hundred years, homicide rates have decreased a hundred-fold. We live in a time that is more orderly and peaceful than ever before in human history. Why, then, does fear of crime dominate modern politics? Why, when we have been largely socialized into good behavior, are there more laws that govern our behavior than ever before? In Command and Persuade, Peter Baldwin examines the evolution of the state's role in crime and punishment over three thousand years. Baldwin explains that the involvement of the state in law enforcement and crime prevention is relatively recent. In ancient Greece, those struck by lightning were assumed to have been punished by Zeus. In the Hebrew Bible, God was judge, jury, and prosecutor when Cain killed Abel. As the state's power as lawgiver grew, more laws governed behavior than ever before; the sum total of prohibited behavior has grown continuously. At the same time, as family, community, and church exerted their influences, we have become better behaved and more law-abiding. Even as the state stands as the socializer of last resort, it also defines through law the terrain on which we are schooled into acceptable behavior. This title is also available in an Open Access edition. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Police & security services |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Legal history |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Terrorism law |
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| Uncontrolled term | Criminal law: procedure and offences |
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