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Command and Persuade

- Crime, Law, and the State across History
Af: Peter Baldwin Engelsk Hardback

Command and Persuade

- Crime, Law, and the State across History
Af: Peter Baldwin Engelsk Hardback
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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.
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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.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 480
ISBN-13: 9780262045629
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0262045621
Kategori: Love om særskilte jurisdiktioner og juridiske områder
Udg. Dato: 5 okt 2021
Længde: 34mm
Bredde: 237mm
Højde: 163mm
Forlag: MIT Press Ltd
Oplagsdato: 5 okt 2021
Forfatter(e): Peter Baldwin
Forfatter(e) Peter Baldwin

Kategori Love om særskilte jurisdiktioner og juridiske områder

ISBN-13 9780262045629

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 480

Udgave

Længde 34mm

Bredde 237mm

Højde 163mm

Udg. Dato 5 okt 2021

Oplagsdato 5 okt 2021

Forlag MIT Press Ltd