Punishment and political order
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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| Formato: | Electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press
c2007.
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| Colección: | Law, meaning, and violence.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009437908606719 |
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.
