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David Garland

Professor of Law and Sociology at New York University

David Garland appears in the following:

A Social History of Punishment

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

What is punishment for?

America and the Death Penalty

Monday, December 20, 2010

David Garland discusses why capital punishment continues in dozens of American states despite the abolition of the death penalty elsewhere in the Western world. Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition looks at its uneven application, legal challenges, and the uncertainty surrounding it don’t seem conducive to effective crime control or criminal justice.