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David W Garland

New York University

Criminal Law, Modern Social Theory

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Expertise

Criminal Law

Modern Social Theory

Professional Experience

Professor: New York University; Current

Education

Edinburgh University: Ph.D. | Socio-Legal Studies; 1984

Sheffield University: M.A.; 1978

Edinburgh University: LL.B.; 1977; Honors: 1st Class Honours

Awards

Awarded the 1993 Sellin-Glueck Prize: American Society of Criminology; 1993; For distinguished scholarly contributions to criminology by a non-American scholar

awarded the 1991 Outstanding Scholarship Award of the Crime and Delinquency for Punishment and Modern Society.: Division of the Society of Social Problems (U.S.A.); 1991

Awarded the 1991 Distinguished Scholar Award of the Section on Crime: Law and Deviance by the American Sociological Association (Oxford); 1990

Punishment and Welfare was awarded the International Society of Criminology's Prix Dennis Carroll.: 1983; This prize is awarded to the most important contribution to international criminology for the 5 year period

selected The Culture of Control as an Outstanding Academic Title of 2002: Choice Magazine

Professional Associations

Graduate Studies Curriculum Committee, Sociology Department: Current

Graduate Evaluation committee, Sociology Department: Current

Tenure review committee for Eric Klinenberg, Sociology Department: Chair; Current

Steering Committee, Institute for Law and Society: Current

Planning Committee, Institute for Law and Society: Current

Appointments subcommittee (law), Institute for Law and Society: Current

Tenure review committee for Sally Engle Merry, Institute for Law and Society: Current

University of Toronto: External Examiner Appointments for Doctoral and Masters dissertations; Current

Australia National University: External Examiner Appointments for Doctoral and Masters dissertations; Current

Cambridge University: External Examiner Appointments for Doctoral and Masters dissertations; Current

Edinburgh University: External Examiner Appointments for Doctoral and Masters dissertations; Current

University of York: External Examiner Appointments for Doctoral and Masters dissertations; Current

Royal Society of Edinburgh: Fellow; Current

Board of Trustees, American Law and Society Association: Member; Current

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioural Sciences, Stanford, CA: Fellow; Current

International Advisory Board of the British Journal of Sociology: Member; Current

Editorial Board of Law and Social Inquiry and of the Editorial Board of Studies in Law, Politics and Society: Member; Current

International Advisory Board, British Journal of Criminology: Member; Current

Editorial Boards of The British Journal of Criminology, Crime, Law and Social Change: Member; Current

Law and Society Review: Occasional academic referee; Current

Policing and Society: Occasional academic referee; Current

The Journal of Modern History: Occasional academic referee; Current

Economic and Social Research Council (UK): Regular referee; Current

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada): Regular referee; Current

Australian National University quality review research evaluation.: external assessor; Current

ASC Sellin-Glueck awards committee: 2004 - Current

Punishment & Society: Founding editor; 2001 - Current

The Edinburgh Law Review and editorial board: Founding editor; 1995 - Current

Global Law Faculty Personnel Committee, Law School: Chair; 2001 - 2006

Law and Society Association, Program Committee: 2004 - 2005

editorial board, Punishment & Society: Editor-in-Chief; 1997 - 2001

Special Professorships Committee, Law School: Chair; 1997 - 1999

Jurisprudence, Legal Theory and Legal History Area Group, Law School: Chair; 1999 - 0000

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Speaking Engagements

Capital Punishment and American Culture: October 1, 2008; BBC radio 4 programme, Thinking Allowed, with Laurie Taylor, featuring my current research

The Culture of Control, Hoffinger Colloquium: September 24, 2008; NYU SCHOOL OF LAW

Legitimacy, Ideology and Criminal Justice, Legitimating Ideologies Conference, New York: May 20, 2008; Russell Sage Working Group

The Culture of Control, Permutations of Penality seminar, New York: April 28, 2008; Graduate school, sociology department, New School,

Penal Excess and Surplus Meaning, Atlanta, GA: April 21, 2008; Emory Law School

Ideology and Crime: A Further Chapter, Radzinowicz Commemoration Conference, England: March 30, 2008; Cambridge University

The Culture of Control, The Edwards Lecture: March 6, 2008; University of Toronto, Centre of Criminology

A Peculiar Institution? Capital Punishment and the American Civilizing Process: February 23, 2005; Rutgers University Sociology Departmen

A Peculiar Institution? Capital Punishment and American Culture: December 9, 2004; University Center for Human Values, Princeton University; The James A. Moffett 29 Lecture in Ethics

A Peculiar Institution? Capital Punishment and American Culture: December 9, 2004; Princeton University

Penal Excess and Surplus Meaning, American Criminology Society meetings, Nashville: November 17, 2004

Master Trends in Law and Society: November 12, 2004; New York School of Law; a public conversation (with Marc Galanter)

Penal Excess and Surplus Meaning: September 20, 2004; presentation to Princeton Sociology Department workshop

Socio-legal studies in a time of crisis: September 11, 2004; Princeton University; presentation to Law and Society Workshop

The Culture of Control: April 1, 2004; Radio broadcast, Melbourne public radio. Interview conducted by Scott Anderson of 3CR community radio

The Culture of Control a response to Italian commentators, Italy: March 3, 2004; University of Bologna

Pena, controllo sociale e modernita: Una riflessione con David Garland, Italy: March 1, 2004; Universita degli studi di Milano-Bicocca; Punishment, Social Control and Modernity , plenary lecture at the conference

The Culture of Control, Criminal Law Workshop Fordham, Law School: January 20, 2004

Penal Excess and Surplus Meaning, Vancouver: October 29, 2003; Green College, UBC

American Penality in Sociological Perspective, Vancouver: October 28, 2003; Simon Fraser University

The Transformation of Criminal Justice: October 27, 2003; The Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada Lecture, Vancouver

The Culture of Control: October 1, 2003; Department of Sociology and School of Law, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Havens Visiting Scholars Lectures

Capital Punishment and American Culture, the American Sociological Association meetings,: August 18, 2003

American Exceptionalism and Capital Punishment, Onati, Spain,: June 20, 2003; workshop on culture and punishment

Public Lynchings in the New South, Community and Law,: May 30, 2003

Mass imprisonment and the culture of control, Prof. Margo Schlanger s Prisons seminar, Harvard Law School: March 7, 2003

Public Lynching in the New South: Solidarities, Sensibilities, and Social Control, Law and Society Colloquium,: February 7, 2003; New York Law School

The Rise of Risk: November 18, 2002; NYU Law School workshop paper( The Culture of Control Special panel at London School of Economics with Richard Sennett, Stanley Cohen, Nikolas Rose, Lucia Zedner and David Downes to launch my book.)

The Culture of Control: June 10, 2002; Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Ideas series, A one hour radio programme with David Cayley discussing the themes of new book.

Control, Law and Education: Making Connections, opening session of the Without Walls conference: April 12, 2002; Graduate Center, CUNY

The Culture of Control: April 10, 2002; Department of Criminology, Ottawa University

Crime and Social Control in Late Modernity: From Rehabilitation to Retribution, Ottawa: April 9, 2002; Law Commission of Canada; Inaugural lecture in the Living Law lecture series

Thinking about Risk: March 5, 2002; Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto

The Culture of Control: November 29, 2001; Yale School of Law; Legal Theory Workshop

Culture of High Crime Societies: October 23, 2001; Brennan Centre, NYU; conversations on criminal justice series

The Culture of Control: March 30, 2001; BBC radio 4 programme, Thinking Allowed, with Laurie Taylor,discussing the themes of new book

The Culture of Control, Symposium on The Culture of Control: March 29, 2001; LSE, London

The Meaning of Mass Imprisonment, Scottish Criminology Conference, Edinburgh: September 1, 2000

Mass Imprisonment in the USA: Causes and Consequences, British Criminology Conference, England: July 1, 2000; University of Leicester; Paper delivered to the British Criminology Conference

The Causes and Consequences of Mass Imprisonment in the USA: February 26, 2000; NYU SCHOOL OF LAW; On the Meaning of Mass Imprisonment and The New Iron Cage . Opening and closing presentations

Legalised Abortion and Crime: A Response to Donahue and Leavitt: January 24, 2000; Presentation to the NYU Law School faculty workshop

After Penal-Welfare: Social Change and Social Order in Late Modernity, ASC Annual Meetings, Toronto: November 18, 1999; Talk delivered at the ASC Annual Meetings

The Culture of High Crime Societies, Montreal: April 23, 1999; McGill University; Talk delivered to the Department of Sociology workshop

The New Politics of Crime Control: April 15, 1999; John Jay College; Talk delivered to the Neo-Liberalism

Crime and Punishment: April 13, 1999; Inside the Law PBS television documentary, taped in NYU Law School

The Puzzle of the Present: February 3, 1999; Columbia University; Talk delivered to the Law and Society Workshop

The New Grammar of Crime Control, Legal Theory seminar: January 29, 1999; Boalt Law School, University of California, Berkeley; Talk delivered at the Legal Theory seminar

The New Grammar of Crime Control and Criminal Justice, 44th Annual Southern Conference of Corrections, Palm Beach, Florida: September 21, 1998

Penal Politics and Popular Culture: March 30, 1998; Toronto University; Talk to be delivered to the Toronto University Center of Criminology

New Strategies of Crime Control, New Strategies of Crime Control: November 1, 1997; School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University; New Strategies of Crime Control

The New Strategies of Crime Control: Sources and Contradictions: October 24, 1997; New York Institute for the Humanities; Paper delivered to the New York Institute for the Humanities

Contemporary Strategies of Crime Control: A Sociological Analysis, Law Department seminar: May 20, 1997; University of Nottingham; Paper delivered to the Law Department Seminar

New Strategies of Crime Control, Law Department Seminar: May 16, 1997; Paper delivered to the Law Department Seminar

Governmentality and the Problem of Crime: April 1, 1997; NYU; Paper delivered to the NYU Sociology Department Workshop on Crime, Law and Deviance

Philip Selznick s Sociology: February 28, 1997; Social and Political Theory Group, Edinburgh University; Opening talk of a half-day seminar to discuss Selznick s book The Moral Commonwealth,

Governmentality and the Problem of Crime: Foucault, Criminology, Sociology, The 1st Annual Nigel Walker Lecture: February 1, 1997; Institute of Criminology and Faculty of Law,Cambridge University

Situational Crime Prevention in Context, Context Colloquium: January 2, 1997; Cambridge University; Paper to the SCP in Context Colloquium

Probation and the Reconfiguration of Crime Control, First Annual Probation Studies Colloquium: December 16, 1996; Kellog College, Oxford; Opening lecture to the First Annual Probation Studies Colloquium

Crime Control and Social Order, Toronto Conference on New Forms of Governance, Toronto: October 1, 1996; Paper delivered at the Annual ASC meetings, San Diego,November 1997Plenary Session

Does the prison work? The role of culture in the interpretation of evidence: A response to J.Q.Wilson, Scottish Criminology Conference, Edinburgh: September 19, 1996

Risk, Rights and Rehabilitation, Annual Howard League Conference: September 19, 1996; Oxford; Plenary session lecture to the Annual Howard League Conference

The New Politics of Crime Control, The Fortunoff Colloquium: April 1, 1996; School of Law, New York University

Does the Evidence Matter?, ISTD conference, London: October 31, 1995; Plenary session lecture at the ISTD conference entitled Does Punishment Work?

The Punitive Society, Annual Lecture of the Centre for Criminology and the Social and Philosophical Study of Law: May 1, 1995

Durkheim's Sociology of Punishment and Punishment Today: March 1, 1995; Oxford; Paper given at the British Centre for Durkheimian Studies

The Decline of the Rehabilitative Ideal? Rethinking Recent Penal History", Tenth Annual Criminal Justice Lecture: March 1, 1995; University of Southampton

The Challenges of Social Control, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, Miami: November 1, 1994; Plenary Session

Histories of Criminology, Legal Theory and History Seminar: April 1, 1994; University of London; paper given at the Birkbeck College Legal Theory and History Seminr

A Postmodern Penality?, 5th Annual Meeting of the Australia and New Zealand Society of Criminology, Sydney: September 1, 1993

Contemporary Penality, The Distinguished International Scholar s seminar course: April 1, 1992; New York University

"The Symbolic Dimensions of Criminal Justice, The George Lurcy Lecture, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Amherst College

Capital Punishment and American Culture, Madison: School of Law, University of Wisconsin

Crime Control and Culture, JD seminar on Punishment: Talk delivered at Yale Law School

Punishment and Culture, The Fortunoff Colloquium: School of Law, New York University

Social Change, Cultural Adaptation and the New Penal Politics, Madison: Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin

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The Culture of Control: A Response to Commentators, Morrell Conference, York: Paper presented to the Morrell,Conference on Toleration

The Power to Punish and its Projects, Scottish Criminology Conference, Edinburgh

The Rise of Risk, Conference on Risk and Morality: Green College, University of British Columbia

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