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Punishment and social control
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ISBN: 9781315127828 9781351495417 9780202307015 9780202307022 0202307018 Year: 2012 Publisher: New Brunswick (N.J.) AldineTransaction

Punishment and Political Order
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ISBN: 9780472023172 9780472901135 9781282463004 0472901133 0472023179 0472099825 0472069829 1282463004 9786612463006 Year: 2009 Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,

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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 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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