Jonathan Simon

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

Jonathan Simon is the Associate Dean of the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at the UC Berkeley School of Law, author of Governing Through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear and Poor Discipline: Parole and the Social Control of the Underclass, 1890-1990, co-editor of Punishment & Society, associate editor of Law & Society Review, and a professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Policy, and Legal Studies. Professor Simon has also been an assistant professor at the University of Michigan and a professor at the University of Miami. He is also the co-author of the theory of the "new penology," sometimes referred to as "actuarial justice" (co-authored with Malcolm Feeley, also a professor of Jurisprudence and Social Policy at Berkeley Law). His research interests include criminology; penology; sociology; law and society; risk and the law; 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 inmates.

Selected publications

• A Radical Need for Criminology, 40 Soc. Just. 9 (2014).

External links

• Faculty page

Simon's blogs

• Governing Through Crime
• Berkeley Jurisprude