David W Garland
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David Garland is Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at New York University
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, 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.
New York University
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Biography
Born in DundeeDundee
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, Scotland
Scotland
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in 1955, he graduated from the University of Edinburgh School of Law
University of Edinburgh School of Law
The University of Edinburgh School of Law, founded in 1707, is a school within the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, dedicated to research and teaching in law. Known today as Edinburgh Law School, it is located in the historic Old College, the original site of the University...
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
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
’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
Royal Society of Edinburgh
The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity, operating on a wholly independent and non-party-political basis and providing public benefit throughout Scotland...
, a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology
American Society of Criminology
The American Society of Criminology is an international organization whose members pursue scholarly, scientific and professional knowledge concerning the measurement, etiology, consequences, prevention, control, and treatment of crime and delinquency...
, 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.