# Command and Persuade

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- Book: [Command and Persuade](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-baldwin/command-and-persuade) ([Command and Persuade.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-baldwin/command-and-persuade.md))
- Authors: [Peter Baldwin](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-baldwin)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6254-602-7
- Pages: 480
- Published: 2023-05-02
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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,...