David W. Garland

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David Garland
Born7 August 1955 (1955-08-07) (age 70)
Dundee, Scotland
OccupationAuthor, professor
NationalityBritish-American
Alma materEdinburgh University
Sheffield University
GenreCriminology, Sociology, Law
SubjectSocial control, Social theory, Punishment, Welfare State

David Garland is Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and professor of sociology at New York University[1], and an honorary professor at Edinburgh Law School.[2]

Biography

In 1977 he graduated from the University of Edinburgh School of Law with an LLB (First-Class Honours) and, the following year, from Sheffield University with a postgraduate MA in criminology.[3] In 1984, he completed a PhD in socio-legal studies at the University of Edinburgh, presenting the thesis "Modern penality: a study of the formation and significance of penal-welfare strategies".[4]

From 1979 until 1997, he taught at the University of Edinburgh's Department of Criminology, where he was first a Lecturer, then a Reader, and finally the holder of a Personal Chair in Penology.[5]

He was a Shelby Cullom Davis Fellow in Princeton University's history department, the 2012/2013 Douglas McK. Brown Chair in Law at the University of British Columbia, and was a visiting global professor in NYU Law School's Global Law program.[6] Since 1997, he has been a member of the New York University School of Law faculty, where he holds the Arthur T. Vanderbilt professorship, and is also a full professor in the Department of Sociology.[7] In fall 2014, he was the Shimizu Visiting professor of law at the London School of Economics and in spring 2018 a Paris Fellow in NYU's Global Research Initiative program.[8] In the fall of 2022, he held a Visiting Fellowship at Sydney University School of Law and in September 2024[9] he was a visiting professor of Criminal Law at the University of Zurich.[10] He also holds an honorary professorship at the University of Edinburgh School of Law.[3]

He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the British Academy, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Society of Criminology.[11] Among the awards he has received for his scholarship are the Sellin-Glueck Award (1993), the Michael J. Hindelang Award (2012) and the Edwin H. Sutherland Award (2012) of the American Society of Criminology and the Mary Douglas Award (2011) and Barrington Moore Award (2011) of the American Sociological Association. In 2006 he was selected for a Guggenheim Fellowship[12]

Selected publications

  • Law and Order Leviathan: America's Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment Princeton University Press (2025)
  • Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition, Harvard University Press (2010)
  • The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society, University of Chicago Press (2001)
  • Mass Imprisonment: Social Causes and Consequences, London, Sage Publications (2001)
  • A Reader on Punishment, Oxford University Press (1994) (Co-edited with A. Duff)
  • Punishment and Modern Society: A Study in Social Theory, Oxford University Press (1990)
  • Punishment and Welfare: A History of Penal Strategies, Gower (1985)
  • The Power to Punish, Gower (1983) (Co-edited with Peter Young)
  • "Penality and the Penal State" in Criminology (2013) vol 51 No 3 pp 475–51

References

  1. ↑ "David Garland on Law and Order Leviathan | Princeton University Press". press.princeton.edu. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
  2. ↑ "Garland, David". NYU:Department of Sociology. Archived from the original on 11 June 2010. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
  3. 1 2 "Professor David Garland Awarded Honorary Doctor of Laws | Edinburgh Law School". www.law.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
  4. ↑ Garland, David W. (1983). "Modern penality: a study of the formation and significance of penal-welfare strategies". era.ed.ac.uk.
  5. ↑ "Dr. David Garland | Department of Sociology". www.sociology.uga.edu. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
  6. ↑ "Reimagining Community Safety #6: A Discussion with David Garland (10/28/20)". www.hks.harvard.edu. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
  7. ↑ "In conversation with David Garland | Edinburgh Law School". www.law.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
  8. ↑ "David Garland, NYU Law | Program in Law and Public Affairs | Princeton University". lapaweb.princeton.edu. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
  9. ↑ "The Current Crisis in American Criminal Justice - Professor David Garland | UNSW Sydney". UNSW Sydney. Archived from the original on 30 March 2025. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
  10. ↑ "UZH: «Penal Leviathan» Gastvortrag von Prof. David Garland (NYU)". UZH Alumni (in German). Retrieved 31 October 2025.
  11. ↑ "Episode 125. Society and Punishment with David Garland". Retrieved 31 October 2025.
  12. ↑ "David W Garland". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 15 December 2019.