Command and Persuade Crime, Law, and the State across History

• Glavni autor: Baldwin, Peter (auth)
• Format: Elektronički Poglavlje knjige
• Jezik: engleski
• Izdano: Cambridge The MIT Press 2021
• Serija: The MIT Press
• Teme: Police & security services; Legal history; Terrorism law; Police and security services; Criminal law: procedure and offences
• Online pristup: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Why, when we have been largely socialized into good behavior, are there more laws that govern our behavior than ever before? Levels of violent crime have been in a steady decline for centuries-for millennia, even. Over the past five hundred years, homicide rates have decreased a hundred-fold. We liv...