Punishment and political order.

Door: McBride, Keally.

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• ISBN: 9780472069828
• Uitgever: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2007. Paperback. x,194 pp. (Law, meaning, and violence). Conditie: nieuw
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• Extra informatie: - What is the role of punishment in a just society? What is the connection between social control and social order? This book offers a study of punishment's place in utopian political thought, mapping out the road that leads from Thomas More's Utopia to the cell blocks of Abu Ghraib. 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 examines the questions raised by the state's exercise of punitive power--from what it is about human psychology that desires sanction and order to how the state can administer pain while calling for justice. Keally McBride's book demonstrates punishment's place at the core of political administration and the stated ideals of the polity.
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