David W. Garland
David W. Garland (born August 7, 1955 in Dundee , Scotland ) is a British and American (dual citizenship) criminologist and sociologist .
Life
Garland earned a Bachelor of Laws from Edinburgh University in 1977 and a Masters in Criminology from Sheffield University in 1978 . In 1984 he received his doctorate in sociology from the University of Edinburgh. In 1992 he became a professor in Edinburgh, since 2001 he has held the Arthur T. Vanderbilt law professorship at the University of New York (USA), and he also holds a sociology chair. In 2015 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Garland is considered one of the world's leading sociologists on crime control phenomena . According to his analysis, a fundamental change in the “western control culture” has taken place. The press by a significantly zuhnehmende punitivity from that in "pithy politicians words, media statements, sanctions attitudes of the population, stricter legislation and - most significantly in the US - in rising prison population " manifest.
Fonts (selection)
- Punishment and Welfare: A History of Penal Strategies . Hants / Gower, Aldershot (England) / Brookfield (Vermont) 1985, ISBN 0566008556 .
- Punishment and Modern Society. A Study in Social Theory , University of Chicago Press and Oxford University Press, Chicago 1990, ISBN 0226283801 .
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The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society . University of Chicago Press, 2001.
- Culture of Control: Fighting Crime and Social Order in the Present . Campus. Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-593-38585-3 .
- Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition , Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts) 2010, ISBN 9780674057234 .
- The welfare state. Avery short introduction. Oxford University Press, New York 2016, ISBN 9780199672660 .
literature
Henner Hess / Lars Ostermeier / Bettina Paul (eds.): Control cultures. Texts on criminal policy following David Garland , Kriminologisches Journal , 9th supplement (2007).
Web links
- New York University's Garland page
- David Garland's Lecture on the Death Penalty in America (Youtube Video)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Daniela Klimke, Aldo Legnaro (Ed.), Kriminologische Grundlagentexte , Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-06503-4 , p. 353.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Garland, David W. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British and American criminologist and sociologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 7, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dundee , Scotland |