David Garland - Law and Order Leviathan
David Garland is Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and a professor of sociology at New York University, as well as an honorary professor of criminology at Edinburgh Law School. His research interests encompass American punishment in a comparative perspective, crime control and criminal justice, the history and sociology of the welfare state, modern social theory, the history and sociology of punishment, and the history of criminological ideas. In this interview he discusses his book, Law and Order Leviathan: America's Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment (Princeton University Press, 2025).