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The UMass Department of Political Science Presents<br>
9th Annual Alfange Lecture in American Constitutionalism<br>
<br>
<b><font size="4">"Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in
an Age of Abolition"<br>
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<b>David Garland<br>
</b>Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology<br>
New York University School of Law.<br>
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<b>September 18, 2013<br>
4:00 PM<br>
</b>Amherst Room, UMass Amherst Campus Center<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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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