The Entire History of Crime and Punishment
Edward Hodge
This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.
What if everything you think you know about crime and punishment is just one moment in a much longer—and stranger—story? And what if understanding that story is the key to reimagining justice today?
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Digital Voice Madison G
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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. What if everything you think you know about crime and punishment is just one moment in a much longer—and stranger—story? And what if understanding that story is the key to reimagining justice today? You live in a world of police, prisons, and headlines about crime waves and crackdowns, yet so much of it feels confusing, unfair, or out of control. Debates about safety, reform, and justice are loud and polarized, while the deeper questions—What is a crime? Who gets punished, and why?—rarely get answered. Without a bigger historical view, it’s easy to feel stuck between fear and frustration. The Entire History of Crime and Punishment offers that missing perspective. Moving from ancient blood feuds to algorithmic sentencing, it shows you how every age has invented its own ideas of crime—and built systems of punishment to match. Instead of giving you slogans, it hands you a sweeping, gripping narrative that makes today’s justice battles finally make sense. Clear, vivid, and deeply researched, this book stands apart by weaving legal history, true crime, and social justice into one continuous, compelling story—and by always bringing that story back to the choices you face now. If you’re ready to see crime and punishment with new eyes and imagine justice differently, start reading The Entire History of Crime and Punishment today. Duration - 3h 46m. Author - Edward Hodge. Narrator - Digital Voice Madison G. Published Date - Tuesday, 06 January 2026. Copyright - © 2026 Edward Hodge ©.
Language:
English
Why We Punish: An Introduction to Crime, Justice, and Power
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1. Blood, Honor, and Gods: Crime and Punishment in the Ancient World
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Eye for an Eye: The First Written Penal Code
Duración:00:04:23
Ma'at and The Egyptian Notion of Justice
Duración:00:03:06
From Blood to Courts: Greek Legal Experiments
Duración:00:03:18
Rome’s Harsh Order: Law, Punishment, Citizenship
Duración:00:02:37
Sacred Wrongs and Sacred Ordeals
Duración:00:03:03
Daily Life Under Early Law: Theft, Debt, and Domestic Disputes
Duración:00:03:26
2. Sins, Heresies, and Kings: Medieval Justice and the Rise of State Power
Duración:00:00:07
Trials by Fire and Water
Duración:00:04:01
The Right to Punish: Lords, Kings, and Courts
Duración:00:04:09
Clergy as Judges: The Mortal Sin Jurisdiction
Duración:00:02:53
Sharia, Qisas, and Forgiveness
Duración:00:02:29
Heretics and Witches: The Inquisition and the Criminalization of Belief
Duración:00:02:56
Shame, Spectacle, and Community: Pillories, Banishment, and Fines
Duración:00:02:41
3. Torture, Spectacle, and the Birth of the Modern State
Duración:00:00:06
The Public Scaffold
Duración:00:04:09
The Queen of Proofs
Duración:00:03:34
Witchcraft and Panic
Duración:00:02:49
Monopoly on Violence
Duración:00:02:44
Edges of Empire
Duración:00:03:29
Voices of Doubt
Duración:00:02:46
4. Enlightenment on Trial: From Cruelty to “Rational” Punishment
Duración:00:00:07
Beccaria and the Revolt Against Torture
Duración:00:03:56
From Secret Files to Open Courts: Transparency and the Rule of Law
Duración:00:03:25
Codifying Justice: The Napoleonic Code and Modern Legal Systems
Duración:00:02:50
Juries and Lay Participation: Putting Ordinary People in Judgment
Duración:00:02:38
Policing the Poor: Vagrancy, Morals, and Social Order
Duración:00:02:44
Revolutions and Rights: Crime, Treason, and the People
Duración:00:03:15
5. Prisons, Penitence, and the Birth of the Carceral Age
Duración:00:00:06
From Dungeons to Houses of Correction
Duración:00:03:26
The Penitentiary Ideal
Duración:00:02:32
Work as Discipline
Duración:00:02:42
Women and Children Behind Bars
Duración:00:02:31
Science Meets Punishment
Duración:00:02:53
Resistance and Reform
Duración:00:02:24
6. Cities, Cops, and Courts: The Making of the Modern Criminal Justice System
Duración:00:00:07
From Night Watch to Police Force: London, Paris, and Beyond
Duración:00:04:19
Crime in the Industrial City: Crowds, Gangs, and New Anxieties
Duración:00:03:05
Detectives and the Birth of Criminal Investigation
Duración:00:02:28
Professionalizing Justice: Lawyers, Judges, and Legal Training
Duración:00:02:42
Colonial Policing: Empire, Race, and Control at a Distance
Duración:00:02:37
Crime Stories and Public Opinion: Newspapers, Penny Dreadfuls, and Panics
Duración:00:02:37
7. Science in the Dock: Forensics, Psychology, and the Criminal Mind
Duración:00:00:07
Tracing Identities: Passports and Prints
Duración:00:05:00
The Lab as Evidence Factory
Duración:00:03:10
To the Edge of Reason: Why Insanity Matters
Duración:00:03:09
Mind over Matter: Measuring Minds and Moral Worth
Duración:00:02:49
The Lab’s Dark Side and the Promise of Truth
Duración:00:02:26
Profiling the Unknown: Crime, Clues, and the Art of Prediction
Duración:00:02:11
8. War, Revolution, and Dictatorship: Crime and Punishment in Extremes
Duración:00:00:07
Total War and Emergency Powers: When Security Trumps Rights
Duración:00:04:23
Political Crimes and Show Trials: Justice as Spectacle in Dictatorships
Duración:00:03:33
Camps and Gulags: Mass Incarceration as State Policy
Duración:00:03:23
Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: Nuremberg and Beyond
Duración:00:03:16
Spies, Subversives, and Secret Police: Surveillance Under Authoritarian Rule
Duración:00:02:54
Transitional Justice: Truth Commissions, Amnesty, and Retribution
Duración:00:02:52
9. Rights, Reforms, and Revolts: The Late-20th-Century Criminal Justice Turn
Duración:00:00:07
New Codes, New Nations
Duración:00:04:44
Rights in the Street
Duración:00:03:08
Health, Fear, and Punishment: The War on Drugs
Duración:00:02:50
Rising Voices, Shifting Fates: Victims, Voices, and Tough on Crime
Duración:00:02:58
The Era of Fear: Three Strikes and the Minimums
Duración:00:02:22
The Prison Boom: Mass Incarceration and Its Consequences
Duración:00:03:05
10. Cybercrime, Surveillance, and the Algorithmic Future of Punishment
Duración:00:00:07
Hackers, Fraudsters, and Dark Web Markets: New Frontiers of Crime
Duración:00:04:09
Policing by Numbers: Predictive Analytics and Risk Scores
Duración:00:03:10
Cameras Everywhere: CCTV, Bodycams, and Facial Recognition
Duración:00:02:56
Borders, Terrorism, and Global Policing Networks
Duración:00:02:48
Corporate Crime and Financial Scandals: When the Powerful Break the Rules
Duración:00:02:43
Digital Trails and Social Credit: Punishment Beyond the Prison
Duración:00:02:35
Imagining Justice Differently: A Conclusion on Crime, Punishment, and Possibility
Duración:00:19:26