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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 exam...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-259212021-11-09T09:04:04Z Punishment and Political Order McBride, Keally Political Science criminal justice punishment 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. 2019-02-06 23:55 2020-03-12 03:00:32 2020-04-01T10:54:50Z 2020-04-01T10:54:50Z 2007-06-08 book 1004159 OCN: 655045792 9780472901135;9780472901135 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25921 eng application/pdf n/a 1004159.pdf University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.133501 102013 10.3998/mpub.133501 e07ce9b5-7a46-4096-8f0c-bc1920e3d889 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780472901135;9780472901135 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Ann Arbor 102013 KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books Knowledge Unlatched open access
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