Punishment and political order [electronic resource] / Keally McBride.
By: McBride, Keally D.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
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BookSeries: Law, meaning, and violence: Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2007Description: x, 194 p. ; 23 cm.Subject(s): Punishment -- Philosophy | Punishment -- Government policy | Social control | Sovereignty | Punishment -- Government policy -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 364.601 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 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, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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