David Garland – författare

How American-style capitalism creates a coercive state unlike any otherHow could America, that storied land of liberty, be home to mass incarceration, police killings, and racialized criminal justice? In Law and Order Leviathan, David Garland explains how America’s racialized political economy gives rise to this extraordinary outcome.The United States has long been an international outlier, with a powerful business class, a weak social state, and an exceptional gun culture. Garland shows how, after the 1960s, American-style capitalism disrupted poor communities and depleted social controls, giving rise to violence and social problems at levels altogether unknown in other affluent nations. Aggressive policing and punishment became the default response.Marshalling a wealth of evidence, Garland shows that America lags behind comparable nations in protections for working people. He identifies the structural sources of America’s penal state and the community-level processes through which political economy impacts crime and policing. He argues that there is nothing paradoxical in America’s reliance on coercive state controls; the nation’s vaunted liberalism is largely an economic liberalism devoted to free markets and corporate power rather than to individual dignity and flourishing. Fear of violent crime and distrust of others ensure public support for this coercive Leviathan; racism enables indifference to its harms.America’s carceral regime will remain an outlier until America’s economy is structurally transformed. And yet, Garland argues, there is a path to reduced violence and significant penal reform even in the absence of structural change. Law and Order Leviathan sets out a powerful theory of the relation between political economy and crime control and a realistic framework for pursuing progressive change.

David Garland and his excellent range of criminological contributors go well beyond this by showing how to start thinking (and arguing) about what these unprecedented statistics might mean for all modern societies′ - Professor Stan Cohen, Department of Sociology, LSE

This major new volume of papers by leading criminologists, sociologists and historians, sets out what is known about the political and penological causes of the phenomenon of mass imprisonment.

Mass imprisonment, American-style, involves the penal segregation of large numbers of the poor and minorities. Imprisonment has become a central institution for the social control of the urban poor.

Other countries are now looking to the USA to see what should be learned from this massive and controversial social experiment. This book describes mass imprisonment′s impact upon crime, upon the minority communities most affected, upon social policy and, more broadly upon national culture. This is a book that all penologists and policy makers should read.

These are the further misadventures of the pertinacious professor and his perky partner who pucker around the planet and through time and space, in a vain attempt to "cure the world of all its ills."

This second set of imaginative, sound-effect-rich audio cartoons, produced, directed, and voiced by veteran, award-winning radio theater artist Joe Bevilacqua, with announcing by David Garland (WNYC, WQXR) and a special guest appearance by Margaret Juntwait (the Metropolitan Opera), includes

This is an epic science fiction/fantasy comedy about a boy and his professor who travel willy-nilly across time and space in a failed attempt to "cure the world of all its ills."

Stories include:

Episode One: "I''ll Teach You!" or "Box of Nothing" Episode Two: "Holy Smoke" or "The Red-Suited Man" Episode Three: "More Edible Than Durable" or "You Smashed My Monkey!" Episode Four: "Oh Boy, She Looks Great!" or "Which Witchway is Which?" Episode Five: "Your Separate World Lines" or I''m Big and You''re Small" Episode Six: "Now It''s Time To Sing!" or "Unwanted Noises in the Air" Episode Seven: "I Like This Box!" or "Oh Victim Man!" Episode Eight: "Oh Dalai" or "Life is Dukka" Episode Nine: "The Traveling Extravaganza" or "His Name is Bub" Episode Ten: "More Dogs For Me?" or "Knock-a-knock-knuckles" Episode Eleven: "You''re a Messiah" or "Buboes in the Lymph Nodes" Episode Twelve: "A Box in the Dark" or "Dead Men Do Not Groan" Episode Thirteen: "Is Eloquence a Bauble" or "Where''s My Cyaneus Episode Fourteen: "I Do Not Like the Blackness of Her Nose" or "The Penguins Laugh at You!" Episode Fifteen: "The Genius of These Woods" or "I''m Also Wearing Explosives"Episode Sixteen: "Say Jacques!" or "She''s Got Kneepads!"