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48
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47

David Garland publication distribution in Law in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Law in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David Garland sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 262+

This scientist: 123 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 262 publications or more.

David Garland D-index placement in Law in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Law scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David Garland sits on this spectrum.

20 D-Index: 16 scientists 21 D-Index: 23 scientists 22 D-Index: 11 scientists 23 D-Index: 20 scientists 24 D-Index: 17 scientists 25 D-Index: 23 scientists 26 D-Index: 19 scientists 27 D-Index: 19 scientists 28 D-Index: 22 scientists 29 D-Index: 14 scientists 30 D-Index: 25 scientists 31 D-Index: 25 scientists 32 D-Index: 20 scientists 33 D-Index: 24 scientists 34 D-Index: 23 scientists 35 D-Index: 12 scientists 36 D-Index: 11 scientists 37 D-Index: 15 scientists 38 D-Index: 14 scientists 39 D-Index: 4 scientists 40 D-Index: 8 scientists 41 D-Index: 9 scientists 42+ D-Index: 92 scientists
20 D-Index 42+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 42 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award
  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2006 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

David Garland is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with a significant number of publications dedicated to sociology and political science. The scientist's work spans several interconnected fields, including political science and international relations, general health professions, finance, and health.

Their research contributions cover key topics such as criminal justice and corrections analysis, crime patterns and interventions, crime, illicit activities, and governance, homelessness and social issues, political and economic history of the UK and US, social policy and reform studies, and housing, finance, and neoliberalism.

David Garland has contributed to multiple academic journals, frequently publishing in:

  • Punishment & Society
  • Asian Journal of Criminology
  • Annual Review of Criminology
  • History of the Human Sciences
  • Politics & Society

Recent publications by David Garland include:

  • "What's Wrong with Penal Populism? Politics, the Public, and Criminological Expertise" (2021) in Asian Journal of Criminology
  • "The Current Crisis of American Criminal Justice: A Structural Analysis" (2022) in Annual Review of Criminology
  • "The emergence of the idea of 'the welfare state' in British political discourse" (2021) in History of the Human Sciences
  • "'Societies under Stress': Introduction to the Special Issue" (2020) in Politics & Society
  • "America's extraordinary penal state: A structural explanation" (2025) in Punishment & Society

In addition to journal articles, Garland has published books, including a title released by Princeton University Press:

  • Law and Order Leviathan (2025)

The scientist has been recognized with several awards, notably being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015 and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2006.

Best Publications

  • The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society

    David Garland

  • THE LIMITS OF THE SOVEREIGN STATE Strategies of Crime Control in Contemporary Society

    David Garland

  • Punishment and modern society : a study in social theory

    David Garland

  • Punishment and Welfare: A History of Penal Strategies

    David Garland

  • The culture of control

    David Garland

  • A cultura do controle : crime e ordem social na sociedade contemporânea

    David Garland

  • `Governmentality' and the Problem of Crime:: Foucault, Criminology, Sociology

    David Garland

  • La cultura del control: crimen y orden social en la sociedad contemporánea

    David Garland

  • Mass Imprisonment : Social Causes and Consequences

    David Garland

  • On the Concept of Moral Panic

    David Garland

  • The Culture of High Crime Societies

    David Garland

  • What is a “history of the present”? On Foucault’s genealogies and their critical preconditions:

    David Garland

  • Punishment and Modern Society

    W. T. Murphy;David Garland

  • Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition

    David Garland

  • Criminology, Social Theory and the Challenge of our Times

    David Garland;Richard Sparks

  • The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society

    Kelly Hannah-Moffat;David Garland

  • Introduction: The Meaning of Mass Imprisonment

    David Garland

  • A reader on punishment

    Antony Duff;David Garland

  • Penal Excess and Surplus Meaning: Public Torture Lynchings in Twentieth-Century America

    David Garland

  • AS CONTRADIÇÕES DA “SOCIEDADE PUNITIVA”: O CASO BRITÂNICO

    David Garland

  • Punishment and Welfare

    Laureen Snider;David Garland

  • PENALITY AND THE PENAL STATE

    David Garland

  • Sociological Perspectives on Punishment

    David Garland

  • Criminology and Social Theory

    David Garland;Richard Sparks

  • Concepts of Culture in the Sociology of Punishment

    David Garland

  • Frameworks of Inquiry in the Sociology of Punishment

    David Garland

  • 'Governmentality' and the problem of Crime 1

    David Garland

  • Punishment and Welfare: A History of Penal Strategies

    Dorothy E. Chunn;David Garland

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Sparks
Richard Sparks University of Edinburgh
Kelly Hannah-Moffat
Kelly Hannah-Moffat University of Toronto
Ian Loader
Ian Loader University of Oxford
Nicola Lacey
Nicola Lacey London School of Economics and Political Science
Katherine Beckett
Katherine Beckett University of Washington

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