{"product_id":"law-and-enforcement-in-ptolemaic-john-bauschatz-9781107037137","title":"Law and Enforcement in Ptolemaic Egypt","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Bauschatz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1107037131\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781107037137\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/14\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 428\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.10d","brand":"John Bauschatz","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45331736035583,"sku":"9781107037137","price":149.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bc0700c2-7fcc-4d53-85d8-842d600e3453.jpg?v=1713970754","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/law-and-enforcement-in-ptolemaic-john-bauschatz-9781107037137","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}