The Proto-totalitarian State: Punishment and Control in Absolutist Regimes

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ISBN: 9780765803665 | 0765803666
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Copyright: 12/15/2006

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Dmitry Shlapentokh is associate professor of history in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Indiana, South Bend.

Asocial processes in the context of early modern European history	p. 9
Social breakdown in the era of the hundred years war	p. 12
Orwellian love : the king as "big brother"	p. 16
The king as divine person	p. 17
Maintaining order as the king's major responsibility	p. 21
The problem of normalization : repressive models and asocial groups	p. 24
The law as quasi-religion	p. 24
The problem of incorporation : oriental state versus western state	p. 29
The proliferation of asocial processes and the problem of control	p. 37
The bringing of order	p. 40
The ideology of repression : humans as animals	p. 41
The deployment of terror	p. 45
Terror against nobles and bandits : the hundred years war and beyond	p. 51
The proliferation and brutalization of repression : fifteenth and sixteenth centuries	p. 61
The application of the death penalty as the drive against criminality	p. 67
Punishment of murderers and other violent offenders	p. 68
Punishment for "crimes against nature"	p. 71
Protection of property	p. 74
Punishment for sexual transgression	p. 77
Punishment for rape	p. 79
Control over marriage	p. 81
Control over prostitution	p. 83
Repression and the struggle against disease	p. 86
The apparatus of repression and control	p. 97
Executioner as profession	p. 97
The emergence of the police	p. 101
Security arrangements and architecture	p. 102
The development of the apparatus of law enforcement	p. 103
Education and reeducation of the people : execution as actor, teacher, and priest	p. 113
Execution as spectacle and teacher	p. 114
Execution as teacher of obedience	p. 114
Execution as teacher of revolt	p. 116
Execution as entertainment and teacher of life	p. 118
Execution as teacher of how to die	p. 120
Torture as spiritual admonition	p. 122
Law as religion : implications for punishment	p. 123
Dealing with vagabonds : repression and social engineering	p. 131
The controversial approach	p. 132
Repression against vagabonds	p. 133
Relocation/deportation of vagabonds	p. 134
The use of vagabonds	p. 137
Workhouses as institutions of punishment	p. 137
Workhouses as economic institutions	p. 140
The profitability of slavery	p. 144
The problems of the security net : from the pre-modern to the modern era	p. 146
Economic regulation as a charitable activity	p. 151
The result of the repression	p. 157
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