David W. Garland

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David Garland is Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and professor of sociology at New York University, and an honorary professor in Criminology at Edinburgh Law School.^[1] He is well known for his historical and sociological studies of penal institutions,^[2] for his work on the welfare state, and for his contributions to criminology, social theory, and the study of social control.

Biography

Born in

Garland was the founding editor of the international, interdisciplinary journal Punishment & Society. He edited the collection Mass Imprisonment: Social Causes and Consequences (2001) and, with Richard Sparks, he co-edited Criminology and Social Theory (2000). He is the author of an award-winning series of books on punishment and social control – Punishment and Welfare: A History of Penal Strategies (1985), Punishment and Modern Society: A Study in Social Theory (1990); The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society (2001) and Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition (2010) – as well as a number of articles on the history and character of criminology. In addition, he has written on such topics as postmodernism, governmentality, risk, moral panics, the concept of culture, and the welfare state.

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. 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^[4] to support his research on capital punishment and American society. He is the recipient of honorary degrees from the Free University of Brussels (2009) and the University of Oslo (2017). His most recent book is The Welfare State: A Very Short Introduction (2016).

Publications

Punishment and control:

• 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 475–517

Criminology as a discipline:

• Criminology and Social Theory, Oxford University Press (2000) (Co-edited with R. Sparks)
• “Criminology’s Place in the Academic Field” in M. Bosworth and C. Hoyle (eds) What is Criminology?, Oxford University Press (2011)
• "Of Crimes and Criminals: The Development of Criminology in Britain" in M.Maguire, R.Morgan and R.Reiner (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Criminology, Third Edition (2002)
• "Criminological Knowledge and its Relation to Power: Foucault's Genealogy and Criminology Today" in the British Journal of Criminology (1992) vol 32 No. 4

Social theory and criminology:

• “On the Concept of Moral Panic” in Crime, Media, Culture vol 4 No 1, pp 9–30
• “Concepts of Culture in the Sociology of Punishment” in Theoretical Criminology vol 10 No 4, pp 419–447
• “The Rise of Risk”, in R. Ericson (ed) Risk and Morality, Toronto: University of Toronto Press (2003), pp 48–86
• “Governmentality and the Problem of Crime: Foucault, Criminology, Sociology” Theoretical Criminology (Volume 1 No.2 May 1997), pp. 173–214
• "Penal Modernism and Postmodernism" in Blomberg and Cohen (eds) Punishment and Social Control Aldine de Gruyter. 1995

Welfare state:

• "The Emergence of the Idea of the Welfare State in British Political Discourse" History of the Human Sciences (January 2022)
• The Welfare State: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press (2016)
• "The Welfare State: A Fundamental Dimension of Modern Government" European Journal of Sociology (December 2014)

References

External links

• NYU Law School profile
• NYU Department of Sociology Profile
• British Academy Profile
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elects National and International Scholars, Artists, Philanthropists, and Business and Civic Leaders
• 2013 ASA Distinguished Book Award Honorable Mention
• 2011 ASA Comparative and Historical Sociology Section Barrington Moore Book Award
• The American Society of Criminology 2012 Edwin H. Sutherland Award