Jonathan Simon

Jonathan Simon, JD/PhD, is the Lance Robbins Professor of Criminal Justice Law and former Associate Dean of the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at the UC Berkeley School of Law. Simon’s scholarship concerns the role of crime and criminal justice in governing contemporary societies, risk and the law, and the history of the interdisciplinary study of law. His other interests include criminology; penology; sociology; insurance models of governing risk; governance; the origins and consequences of, and solutions to, the California prison "crisis"; parole; prisons; capital punishment; immigration detention; and the warehousing of incarcerated people.

For other people with similar names, see John Simon (disambiguation).

Simon's published works include over seventy articles and book chapters, along with three monographs, including: Poor Discipline: Parole and the Social Control of the Underclass (University of Chicago 1993), Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear (Oxford University Press 2007), and Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America (New Press 2014). Simon has served as the co-editor-in-chief of the journal, Punishment and Society, and the co-editor of the Sage Handbook of Punishment & Society (along with Richard Sparks). He is a member of the Law & Society Association and the American Society of Criminology. Simon’s scholarship has been recognized internationally with appointment as a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at the University of Edinburgh (2010-11), a Fellow of the Israeli Institute for Advanced Studies (2016), and a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2018). In 2016 Simon was recognized for his scholarship on the human rights of prisoners with the Docteur honoris causa de la Faculté et de l’Institut, Faculté de Droit et Criminologie, Université Catholique de Louvain.

Simon has also taught at the University of Michigan and at the University of Miami. With Malcom Feeley, Simon developed is also the co-author of the theory of "The New Penology: Notes on the Emerging Strategy of Corrections and its Implications." Published in 1992, The New Penology placed early attention on what is sometimes called, "actuarial justice" or "risk assessment," which is primarily concerned with the correct identification, classification, and management of groups categorized according to perceived dangerousness and the logic of efficient administration.[1]

Education
  • University of California, Berkeley: Phd., Jurisprudence & Social Policy Program, 1990, J.D., School of Law (Boalt Hall), 1987, A.B., Social Science Field Major, 1981
  • Laboratory School, High School, Chicago, Illinois Diploma 1977[2]

Selected publications
  • Feeley, Malcolm M., and Jonathan Simon. "The new penology: Notes on the emerging strategy of corrections and its implications." Criminology 30.4 (1992): 449-474.
  • Poor discipline. University of Chicago Press, 1993.
  • "Managing the monstrous: Sex offenders and the new penology." Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 4, no. 1-2 (1998): 452.
  • "Refugees in a carceral age: The rebirth of immigration prisons in the United States." Public Culture 10, no. 3 (1998): 577-607.
  • "Law after society." Law & Social Inquiry 24, no. 1 (1999): 143-194.
  • "Paramilitary features of contemporary penality." Journal of Political & Military Sociology (1999): 279-290.
  • "Megan's law: Crime and democracy in late modern America." Law & Social Inquiry 25, no. 4 (2000): 1111-1150.
  • "From the big house to the warehouse: rethinking prisons and state government in the 20th century." Punishment & Society 2, no. 2 (2000): 213-234.
  • "Fear and loathing in late modernity: Reflections on the cultural sources of mass imprisonment in the United States." Punishment & Society 3, no. 1 (2001): 21-33.
  • "Fearless Speech in the Killing State: The Power of Capital Crime Victim Speech." NCL Rev. 82 (2003): 1377.
  • "Reversal of fortune: The resurgence of individual risk assessment in criminal justice." Annu. Rev. Law Soc. Sci. 1 (2005): 397-421.
  • Governing through crime: How the war on crime transformed American democracy and created a culture of fear. oxford university Press, 2007.
  • "Wake of the flood: Crime, disaster, and the American risk imaginary after Katrina." Issues in Legal Scholarship 6, no. 3 (2007).
  • "Rise of the carceral state." Social Research: An International Quarterly 74, no. 2 (2007): 471-508.
  • "Consuming obsessions: Housing, homicide, and mass incarceration since 1950." U. Chi. Legal F. (2010): 165.
  • "Mass incarceration: From social policy to social problem." The Oxford handbook of sentencing and corrections (2012): 23-52.
  • "Misdemeanor injustice and the crisis of mass incarceration." S. Cal. L. Rev. Postscript 85 (2012): 113.
  • "The return of the medical model: Disease and the meaning of imprisonment from John Howard to Brown v. Plata." Harv. CR-CLL Rev. 48 (2013): 217.
  • Mass incarceration on trial: a remarkable court decision and the future of prisons in America. The New Press, 2014.
  • A Radical Need for Criminology, 40 Soc. Just. 9 (2014).
  • "Law's Violence, the Strong State, and the Crisis of Mass Imprisonment (for Stuart Hall)." Wake Forest L. Rev. 49 (2014): 649.
  • "The new gaol: seeing incarceration like a city." The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 664, no. 1 (2016): 280-301.
  • "Racing Abnormality, Normalizing Race: The Origins of America's Peculiar Carceral State and Its Prospects for Democratic Transformation Today." Nw. UL Rev. 111 (2016): 1625.
  • Foucault, Michel, Jonathan Simon, and Stuart Elden. "Danger, crime and rights: a conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon." Theory, Culture & Society 34, no. 1 (2017): 3-27.
  • "Penal monitoring in the United States: lessons from the American experience and prospects for change." Crime, Law and Social Change 70, no. 1 (2018): 161-173.
  • "Explicit Bias: Why Criminal Justice Reform Requires Us to Challenge Crime Control Strategies That Are Anything But Race Blind." (2018): 331.
  • "For a human rights approach to reforming the American penal state." Journal of Human Rights Practice 11, no. 2 (2019): 346-356.
  • "'The Criminal Is to Go Free': The Legacy of Eugenic Thought in Contemporary Judicial Realism about American Criminal Justice." BUL Rev. 100 (2020): 787.
  • "Dignity and its discontents: Towards an abolitionist rethinking of dignity." European Journal of Criminology 18, no. 1 (2021): 33-51.

References
  1. "The New Penology". obo. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
  2. "SIMON CV 2016" (PDF). Berkeley Law School. Retrieved 5 November 2020.

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