[Hamp-law] Sep 18 lecture on Death Penalty

[Flavio Risech]

The UMass Department of Political Science Presents
9th Annual Alfange Lecture in American Constitutionalism

*"Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition"
*
*David Garland
*Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology
New York University School of Law.

*September 18, 2013
4:00 PM
*Amherst Room, UMass Amherst Campus Center

Biography: Professor David W. Garland, widely considered one of the 
world's leading sociologists of crime and punishment, joined the New 
York University School of Law faculty in 1997. He was previously on the 
faculty of Edinburgh University's Law School, where he had taught since 
1979, being appointed to a personal chair in 1992. At New York 
University School of Law , he also holds a joint appointment as 
professor of sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences, where he 
teaches graduate classes in social theory and an undergraduate course in 
criminology.

Garland received a law degree with First Class Honors and a Ph.D. in 
Socio-Legal Studies from the University of Edinburgh as well as a 
Masters in Criminology from the University of Sheffield. He is noted for 
his distinctive sociological approach to the study of law, for his 
analyses of punishment and crime control, and for his historical studies 
of criminology. He has played a leading role in developing the sociology 
of punishment and was the founding editor of the interdisciplinary 
journal Punishment & Society. He is the author of a series of 
prize-winning studies, including Punishment and Modern Society: A Study 
in Social Theory, which won distinguished book awards from the American 
Sociological Association and the Society for the Study of Social 
Problems, Punishment and Welfare: The History of Penal Strategies which 
won the International Society of Criminology's prize for best study over 
a five-year period; The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in 
Contemporary Society, (University of Chicago Press, 2001) which is one 
of the most influential studies in contemporary criminology; and 
Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition 
which won awards from the American Sociological Association and from the 
Association of American Publishers. His books have been translated into 
many languages.

He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the 
Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the American Society of 
Criminology, and a Fellow-Designate of the Center of Advanced Study in 
the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, CA. In 1999 he was appointed 
Visiting Professor at Edinburgh University, a title he continues to 
hold. He was awarded a J.S. Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006 for his 
research on capital punishment and American society. He is currently 
working on the history and sociology of the welfare state.

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