“Societies under Stress”: Introduction to the Special Issue*

• DOI: 10.1177/0032329220942030
• Author: David Garland
• Date: 01 September 2020
• Published date: 01 September 2020
• Subject Matter: Articles

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Politics & Society

2020, Vol. 48(3) 311 –320

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“Societies under Stress”:

Introduction to the

Special Issue*

David Garland

NYU School of Law

Abstract

This introduction to the special issue “Societies under Stress” provides an

intellectual context for the four articles that follow. The conferences at which the

articles were presented brought together comparative welfare state researchers

and scholars who work on crime and punishment to explore the links between

social welfare and penal policy, particularly in social settings where neoliberal

austerity or rising levels of criminal violence put pressure on these fields of

social policy. Participants were drawn from Europe, the United States, and Latin

America and represented a variety of social science disciplines and an eclectic mix

of research methodologies.

Keywords

crime, punishment, welfare, taxation, state, comparative social policy, comparative

penology

Corresponding Author:

David Garland, NYU School of Law, Vanderbilt Hall, Room 340, 40 Washington Square South, New

York, NY 10012, USA.

Email: David.Garland@nyu.edu

*This special issue of Politics & Society titled “Societies under Stress” features an introduction by David

Garland and four articles that were presented as part of the workshop series held at the University of

Southern Denmark, December 2017, organized by Marianne Ulriksen and Peter Starke, and at The Ohio

State University, November 2018, organized by Sarah Brooks, Sarah Berens, and Georg Wenzelburger

and partly funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Ref 30.18.0.134.PO.

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