David W. Garland is a sociologist and legal scholar who holds the Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professorship of Law at New York University School of Law along with a professorship in NYU's Department of Sociology. He is widely regarded as one of the leading scholars of crime and punishment, and his 1990 book Punishment and Modern Society: A Study in Social Theory examined punishment as a complex social institution shaping both social relations and cultural meaning. His other major works include Punishment and Welfare, The Culture of Control and Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition, and in 2012 the American Society of Criminology awarded him its Edwin H. Sutherland Prize for outstanding contributions to criminological theory and research.
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David Garland's The Culture of Control (2001) is a leading sociological analysis of the political and cultural drivers behind the late-twentieth-century rise in punitiveness and mass incarceration.
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1. Wikipedia: David Garland (sociologist)
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