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Command and Persuade: Crime, Law, and the State across History by Peter Baldwin

05 Oct 2021

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Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/519206to listen full audiobooks. Title: Command and Persuade: Crime, Law, and the State across History Author: Peter Baldwin Narrator: Tom Perkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 5, 2021 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: 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 live in a time that is more orderly and peaceful than ever before in human history. Why, then, does fear of crime dominate modern politics? In Command and Persuade, Peter Baldwin examines the evolution of the state's role in crime and punishment over three thousand years. Baldwin explains that the involvement of the state in law enforcement and crime prevention is relatively recent. In ancient Greece, those struck by lightning were assumed to have been punished by Zeus. In the Hebrew Bible, God was judge, jury, and prosecutor when Cain killed Abel. As the state's power as lawgiver grew, more laws governed behavior than ever before; the sum total of prohibited behavior has grown continuously. At the same time, as family, community, and church exerted their influences, we have become better behaved and more law-abiding. Even as the state stands as the socializer of last resort, it also defines through law the terrain on which we are schooled into acceptable behavior.

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