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

• मुख्य लेखक: Baldwin, Peter (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Cambridge The MIT Press 2021
• श्रृंखला: The MIT Press
• विषय: Police & security services; Legal history; Terrorism law; Police and security services; Criminal law: procedure and offences
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: 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...