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Punishment and Political Order

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2008

Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn
Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn
Affiliation:
Whitman College
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Punishment and Political Order. By Keally McBride. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. 194p. $55.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.

What part does punishment play in the constitution of political order, and under what circumstances does punishment reinforce or undermine that order? In recent decades, suggests Keally McBride, this question has too often been ceded by students of political science to sociologists, legal scholars, and criminologists. In this discerning collection of essays, McBride seeks to reclaim this turf by asking, first, how certain pathbreaking texts have responded to the dilemmas generated when political orders, real or imagined, inflict suffering in response to misdeeds and, second, how we might make, specifically, political sense of controversies engendered by contemporary practices of punishment, especially but not exclusively in the United States.

Type
BOOK REVIEWS: POLITICAL THEORY
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , March 2008 , pp. 163 - 164
Copyright
© 2008 American Political Science Association

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