In episode 125 we speak with Professor David Garland about his work on the impact of social structures on the criminal justice system.
David Garland is Professor of Sociology in NYU’s Department of Sociology and Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law at NYU School of Law. His area of research is social theory and historical sociology with a focus on the penal state and the welfare state. In 2012, the American Society of Criminology awarded him the Edwin H. Sutherland Prize for outstanding contributions to theory and research. He has been elected to membership of learned societies in both the United States and the United Kingdom, being a Fellow of the British Academy, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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Get in touch with David:
New York University // david.garland AT nyu.edu
Below are the works authored by David that were
discussed in this episode of The Crim Academy:
Garland, D. (2001). The culture of control: Crime and social order in contemporary society. Oxford university press.
Garland, D. (2023). The current crisis of American criminal justice: A structural analysis. Annual Review of Criminology, 6(1), 43-63. [article link]
Garland, D. (2025). Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment. Princeton University Press.