David W. Garland

David W. Garland ( born August 7, 1955 in Dundee, Scotland ) is a British and American ( dual citizenship ) criminologist and sociologist.

Garland acquired in 1977 with a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Edinburgh in 1978 and a Masters in Criminology at the University of Sheffield. In 1984 he earned his doctorate as a sociologist at the University of Edinburgh. In 1992 he became a professor in Edinburgh, since 2001 he is the holder of the jurisprudential Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor at New York University (USA), he also has a Sociology Department.

Garland is considered one of the world's leading sociologists to the phenomena of crime control. It examines the impact of current crime trends in the United States and Great Britain (High Crime Societies ) on crime policy in the broadest sense.

Writings (selection )

  • Punishment and Welfare: A History of Penal Strategies, Heinemann / Gower, 1985
  • Punishment and Modern Society: A Study in Social Theory, University of Chicago Press and Oxford University Press, 1990
  • The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society, University of Chicago Press, 2001
  • Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in to Age of Abolition, Harvard University Press, 2010.
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