David Garland

David Garland is the Arthur T Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at New York University and an Honorary Professor at Edinburgh University. Born in Dundee, Scotland, and educated at Edinburgh University, he moved to the USA in the 1990s. A socio-legal scholar and a criminologist by training, Garland is the author of several award-winning books in the sociology of punishment and on the welfare state. He is a fellow of the British Academy, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.