This Modern Criminal Law Review event on David Garland鈥檚 Law and Order Leviathan: America鈥檚 Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment gathers an international and interdisciplinary panel of scholars to reflect on several of the fundamental analytic and normative issues explored in this important and ambitious book, including developing a nuanced comparative-historical analysis of U.S. penality, laying out a broader methodological framework for similar accounts of other penal systems, and鈥揷rucially鈥揳dvancing a theory of the relation between political economy and crime control and a realistic framework for pursuing progressive change.