McBride, Keally D.

Punishment and Political Order / Keally McBride. - 1 online resource (208 pages). - Law, meaning, and violence . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

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.

Open Access

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


Electronic books.

HV7419 / .M398 2007

364.601