Law and Order Leviathan: America's Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment

How American-style capitalism creates a coercive state unlike any other

How could America, that storied land of liberty, be home to mass incarceration, police killings, and racialized criminal justice? In Law and Order Leviathan, David Garland explains how America’s racialized political economy gives rise to this extraordinary outcome.

The United States has long been an international outlier, with a powerful business class, a weak social state, and an exceptional gun culture. Garland shows ho...