Books by David Garland and Complete Book Reviews
David Garland, Author . Univ. of Chicago $29 (336p) ISBN 978-0-226-28383-8
How, asks NYU Law professor Garland, did we—in both the U.S. and Britain—evolve into a society obsessed with crime and meting out increasingly harsh punishments? In an engrossing, complex study, Garland (Punishment and Welfare) pursues a
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David Garland, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-312-32722-4
Garland picks up where Saratoga
(2005) left off, with his British Revolutionary War soldier heroes, Capt. Jamie Skoyles and Sgt. Tom Caffrey, imprisoned after being captured at the British defeat at Saratoga in 1777. They quickly escape and, with...
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David Garland, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-32719-4
Capt. James Skoyles marches back into the Hudson Valley, led by Gen. John Burgoyne, and prepares for round two of the Revolutionary War, as this first book in a series from the pseudonymous Garland begins. Garland has done his homework when it comes
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David Garland. Princeton Univ, $33 (232p) ISBN 978-0-691-27119-4
In this intriguing study, political economist Garland (The Peculiar Institution) tries to reconcile why it is that though American crime rates have steadily decreased since the 1980s, the public demand for “law and order” has made a resurgence in...
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