2026 David Garland: Law Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Law	48	58	51	47	41	123	36278

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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

13686
Citations
THE LIMITS OF THE SOVEREIGN STATE Strategies of Crime Control in Contemporary Society

David Garland

3181
Citations
Punishment and modern society : a study in social theory

David Garland

2126
Citations
Punishment and Welfare: A History of Penal Strategies

David Garland

2019
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The culture of control

David Garland

1621
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A cultura do controle : crime e ordem social na sociedade contemporânea

David Garland

1414
Citations
`Governmentality' and the Problem of Crime:: Foucault, Criminology, Sociology

David Garland

1239
Citations
La cultura del control: crimen y orden social en la sociedad contemporánea

David Garland

846
Citations
Mass Imprisonment : Social Causes and Consequences

David Garland

839
Citations
On the Concept of Moral Panic

David Garland

808
Citations
The Culture of High Crime Societies

David Garland

736
Citations
What is a “history of the present”? On Foucault’s genealogies and their critical preconditions:

David Garland

579
Citations
Punishment and Modern Society

W. T. Murphy;David Garland

576
Citations
Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition

David Garland

550
Citations
Criminology, Social Theory and the Challenge of our Times

David Garland;Richard Sparks

516
Citations
The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society

Kelly Hannah-Moffat;David Garland

351
Citations
Introduction: The Meaning of Mass Imprisonment

David Garland

309
Citations
A reader on punishment

Antony Duff;David Garland

301
Citations
Penal Excess and Surplus Meaning: Public Torture Lynchings in Twentieth-Century America

David Garland

294
Citations
AS CONTRADIÇÕES DA “SOCIEDADE PUNITIVA”: O CASO BRITÂNICO

David Garland

287
Citations
Punishment and Welfare

Laureen Snider;David Garland

274
Citations
PENALITY AND THE PENAL STATE

David Garland

252
Citations
Sociological Perspectives on Punishment

David Garland

174
Citations
Criminology and Social Theory

David Garland;Richard Sparks

135
Citations
Concepts of Culture in the Sociology of Punishment

David Garland

124
Citations
Frameworks of Inquiry in the Sociology of Punishment

David Garland

123
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'Governmentality' and the problem of Crime 1

David Garland

20
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Punishment and Welfare: A History of Penal Strategies

Dorothy E. Chunn;David Garland

13
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Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Sparks University of Edinburgh

Kelly Hannah-Moffat University of Toronto

Ian Loader University of Oxford

Nicola Lacey London School of Economics and Political Science

Katherine Beckett University of Washington

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