David W Garland

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]

Biography

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.

References

1. ^ "Garland, David". NYU:Department of Sociology. http://sociology.fas.nyu.edu/object/davidgarland. Retrieved 23 October 2010. 

External links

• NYU Law School profile

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Name	Garland, David
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Date of birth	1955
Place of birth	Dundee, Scotland
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