David Garland teaches law and sociology at New York University. Born and raised in Scotland, he is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh and taught there from 1979 to 1997 before moving to the USA. Garland is the author of a series of award-winning books on punishment and criminal justice, including Punishment and Modern Society (1990); The Culture of Control (2001) and Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition (2010) the editor of Mass Imprisonment: Social Causes and Consequences (2001); and The Welfare State: A Very Short Introduction, (Oxford University Press, March 2016). His latest book, entitled Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment will be published by Princeton University Press in the Fall of 2025.
