Command and Persuade: Crime, Law, and the State Across History Baldwin Peter
Command and Persuade: Crime, Law, and the State Across History Baldwin Peter Why, when we have been largely socialized into good behavior, are there more laws that govern our behavior than ever…
Specifikacia Command and Persuade: Crime, Law, and the State Across History Baldwin Peter
Command and Persuade: Crime, Law, and the State Across History Baldwin Peter
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. We live in a time that is more orderly and peaceful than ever before in human history. Over the past five hundred years, homicide rates have decreased a hundred-fold.
Why, when we have been largely socialized into good behavior, are there more laws that govern our behavior than ever before? Why, then, does fear of crime dominate modern politics? 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