Punishment and political order

McBride, Keally D.

Punishment and political order [electronic resource] / Keally McBride. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2007. - x, 194 p. - Law, meaning, and violence . - Law, meaning, and violence. .

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.


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Punishment--Philosophy.
Punishment--Government policy.
Social control.
Sovereignty.
Punishment--Government policy--United States.


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