| David W Garland | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1955 Dundee, Scotland |
| Occupation | Author, professor |
| Alma mater | Edinburgh University Sheffield University |
| Genres | Sociology, Criminology |
| Subjects | Social control |
David Garland is Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at New York University.[1]
Born in Dundee, Scotland in 1955, he graduated from the University of Edinburgh School of Law with an LLB and from Sheffield University with a postgraduate MA in Criminology. He obtained his PhD from the University of Edinburgh in Socio-Legal Studies in 1984. From 1979 until 1997 he taught at the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Law and Society where he held a personal Chair in Penology. He has held visiting positions at Leuven University, Belgium, the University of California, Berkeley and Yale University; was a Davis Fellow in Princeton University’s history department, and was a Visiting Global Professor in NYU Law School’s Global Law program.
David 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) and The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society (2001).
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology, and a Fellow-Designate of the Center of Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, CA. In 2006 he was awarded a J.S. Guggenheim Fellowship for his research on capital punishment and American society.