David Garland is the Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor of 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 a Fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the author of a series of award-winning books on punishment and criminal justice, including Punishment and Welfare (1985) Punishment and Modern Society (1990); The Culture of Control (2001) and Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition (2010) and the editor of Mass Imprisonment: Social Causes and Consequences (2001). His most recent book, The Welfare State: A Very Short Introduction, was published by Oxford University Press in 2016. He is currently at book entitled Roots of Injustice: Structural Sources of America’s Penal State.