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Punishment and political order

by McBride, Keally D.
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Series: Law, meaning, and violence Published by : University of Michigan Press, (Ann Arbor :) Physical details: x, 194 p.
Subject(s): Punishment -- Philosophy. | Punishment -- Government policy. | Social control. | Sovereignty. | Punishment -- Government policy -- United States. | Electronic books.
Year: 2007
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-187) and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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