Law and Enforcement in Ptolemaic Egypt

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ID19890909
AuthorsJohn Bauschatz (University of Arizona, corresponding author)
Year2013
Publication date2013-10-14
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueLaw and Enforcement in Ptolemaic Egypt (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781139583770
OpenAlexW612148013
Open LibraryOL34560570M
ISBN9781139583770
LanguageEN
Citations received9

This book examines the activities of a broad array of police officers in Ptolemaic Egypt (323–30 BC) and argues that Ptolemaic police officials enjoyed great autonomy, providing assistance to even the lowest levels of society when crimes were committed. Throughout the nearly 300 years of Ptolemaic rule, victims of crime in all areas of the Egyptian countryside called on local police officials to investigate crimes; hold trials; and arrest, question and sometimes even imprison wrongdoers. Drawing on a large body of textual evidence for the cultural, social and economic interactions between state and citizen, John Bauschatz demonstrates that the police system was efficient, effective, and largely independent of central government controls. No other law enforcement organization exhibiting such a degree of autonomy and flexibility appears in extant evidence from the rest of the Greco-Roman world

Autonomy · Criminology · Enforcement · Extant taxon · Flexibility (engineering) · Government (linguistics) · Law enforcement · Management · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Classical Antiquity Studies · Law · 305 b.c.-30 b.c · Criminal justice, Administration of (Egyptian law) · Egypt · History · Police · Ptolemaic dynasty

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