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PUNISHMENT AND POLITICAL ORDER
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| By: |
Keally D. McBride |
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Paperback |
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£21.95 |
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£21.29 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0472069829 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780472069828 |
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| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
8 June, 2007 |
| Edition: |
Annotated edition |
| Series: |
Law, Meaning & Violence |
| Pages: |
200 |
| Description: |
What is the role of punishment in a just society? What is the connection between social control and social order? This book offers a study of punishment's place in utopian political thought, mapping out the road that leads from Thomas More's "Utopia" to the cell blocks of Abu Ghraib. |
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Most of us think of punishment as an ugly display of power. But punishment also tells us something about the ideals and aspirations of a people and their government. How a state punishes reveals whether or not it is confident in its own legitimacy and sovereignty. Punishment and Political Order examines the questions raised by the state s exercise of punitive powerfrom what it is about human psychology that desires sanction and order to how the state can administer pain while calling for justice. Keally McBride's book demonstrates punishment's place at the core of political administration and the stated ideals of the polity."From start to finish this is a terrific, engaging book. McBride offers a fascinating perspective on punishment, calling attention to its utility in understanding political regimes and their ideals. She succeeds in reminding us of the centrality of punishment in political theory and, at the same time, in providing a framework for understanding contemporary events. I know of no other book that does as much to make the subject of punishment so compelling."Austin Sarat, Amherst College"Punishment and Political Order will be welcome reading for anyone interested in understanding law in society, punishment and political spectacle, or governing through crime control. This is a clear, accessible, and persuasive examination of punishmentas rhetoric and reality. Arguing that punishment is a complex product of the social contract, this book demonstrates the ways in which understanding the symbolic power and violence of the law provides analytical tools for examining the ideological function of prison labor today, as well as the crosscutting and contingent connections between language and identity, legitimation and violence, sovereignty and agency more generally."Bill Lyons, Director, Center for Conflict Management, University of Akron"Philosophical explorations of punishment have often stopped with a theory of responsibility. McBride's book moves well beyond this. It shows that the problem of punishment is a central issue for any coherent theory of the state, and thus that punishment is at the heart of political theory. This is a stunning achievement."Malcolm M. Feeley, University of California at BerkeleyKeally McBride is Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco." |
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US |
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The University of Michigan Press |
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