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Author: David Garland (Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 11.30cm
, Height: 0.90cm
, Length: 17.30cm
Weight: 0.151kg
ISBN: 9780199672660
ISBN 10: 0199672660
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 24 March 2016
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
An extremely lucid introduction to the big issues facing welfare states and the big debates about them. ... It provides a more interesting and vigorous introduction to welfare states than the vast majority of existing textbooks. Professor Julia Lewis, Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 38 'This slender and yet weighty little book has no rival anywhere. It is the authoritative introduction for anyone remotely interested in the welfare state.' - Gosta Esping-Andersen, Professor of Sociology at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. 'It is amazing how dimensions of historical origins, nation-building, power resources, institutional legacies and varieties of welfare regimes are covered with utmost clarity. I find Garland's short introduction of the welfare state truly unparalleled.'- Prof. dr Anton Hemerijck, Centennial Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
Garland's brief but magisterial and penetrating analysis of the welfare state should, and doubtless will be, a major presence in criminology, as well as in social science and public debate ... written with the sophisticated skill, scholarship and style ... this wise, informative and inspiring book will help immensely in working for a positive future for us all. * The British Journal of Criminology *
'This slender and yet weighty little book has no rival anywhere. It is the authoritative introduction for anyone remotely interested in the welfare state.' - Gosta Esping-Andersen, Professor of Sociology at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. 'It is amazing how dimensions of historical origins, nation-building, power resources, institutional legacies and varieties of welfare regimes are covered with utmost clarity. I find Garland's short introduction of the welfare state truly unparalleled.'- Prof. dr Anton Hemerijck, Centennial Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
Author Information
David Garland is the Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at New York University and Professorial Fellow at Edinburgh University. He is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh and taught there from 1979 to 1997 before moving to the USA. A Fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Garland is the author of a series of award-winning books on punishment and criminal justice, including Punishment and Welfare (1985), The Culture of Control (OUP 2001) and Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in and Age of Abolition (OUP 2010). His recent work on the welfare state has appeared in the European Journal of Sociology.
