America's Death Penalty: Between Past and Present

About the Contributors

| 221 About the Contributors David Garland is Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at New York University. He is the author of Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition. Douglas Hay is Professor of Law and History at York University and co-editor of Masters, Servants and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562–1955. Randall McGowen is Professor of History at the University of Oregon and co-author of The Perreaus and Mrs. Rudd: Forgery and Betrayal in Eighteenth -Century London. Rebecca McLennan is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of The Crisis of Imprisonment: Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776–1941. Michael Meranze is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of Laboratories of Virtue: Punishment, Revolution and Authority in Philadelphia, 1760–1835. Jonathan Simon is Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and Faculty Co-Chair at the Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice. He is the author of Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear. ...