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