Autor: David Garland

Over the past three decades, the United States has embraced the death penalty with tenacious enthusiasm. While most of those countries whose legal systems and cultures are normally compared to the Un …

Traditionally, security has been the realm of the state and its uniformed police. However, in the last two decades, many actors and agencies, including schools, clubs, housing corporations, hospitals …

Welfare states vary across nations and change over time. And the balance between markets and government; free enterprise and social protection is perennially in question. But all developed societies …

Welfare states vary across nations and change over time. And the balance between markets and government; free enterprise and social protection is perennially in question. But all developed societies …

`The quite extraordinary phenomenon of mass imprisonment in the USA needs, above all, to be identified. David Garland and his excellent range of criminological contributors go well beyond this by sho …

Publicado originalmente en 1985 y traducido por primera vez al español, este libro se cuenta –a la par de Vigilar y castigar, y Cárcel y fábrica– entre los clásicos para pensar la historia de la pena …

Romans has been described as the theological epistle par excellence. The apostle Paul emphasizes that salvation is by God’s grace alone, and gives the assurance that freedom, hope, and the gift of ri …

Rufe nach langen Haftstrafen und nach der Rücknahme von Hafterleichterungen finden immer mehr Resonanz in westlichen Gesellschaften. Hinzu kommen Forderungen nach verstärkter Kontrolle, etwa nach ein …

Scripture, Texts, and Tracings in 2 Corinthians and Philippians advances the interpretation of 2 Corinthians and Philippians by exploring how the Apostle Paul quotes, alludes to, or echoes the Jewish …

Situational crime prevention has drawn increasing interest in recent years, yet the debate has looked mainly at whether it »works» to prevent crime. This volume addresses the ethics of situational …

The past 30 years have seen vast changes in our attitudes toward crime. More and more of us live in gated communities; prison populations have skyrocketed; and issues such as racial profiling, commun …

In this path-breaking book, David Garland argues that punishment is a complex social institution that affects both social relations and cultural meanings. Drawing on theorists from Durkheim to Foucau …