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For Spring 2011, Simon has been appointed the Leverhulme Visiting Professor of Law, University of Edinburgh, School of Law.
Before joining the Boalt Hall faculty in 2003, Simon was a professor at the University of Miami School of Law. Previously, he was an assistant professor at the University of Michigan from 1990 to 1992. He clerked for the Honorable Judge William C. Canby Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1988-89).
Simon teaches courses on criminal law, criminal justice, law and culture, risk and the law, and socio-legal studies. His scholarship concerns the role of criminal justice and punishment in modern societies, insurance and other contemporary practices of governing risk, the cultural lives of law, and the intellectual history of law and the social sciences. Simon is a faculty associate of the Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice.
Simon is the author of "Poor Discipline: Parole and the Social Control of the Underclass," 1890-1990 (1993) and the co-editor of "Embracing Risk: The Changing Culture of Insurance and Responsibility" (with Tom Baker, 2002) and "Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law: Moving Beyond Legal Realism" (with Austin Sarat, 2003); "After the War on Crime: Race, Democracy and the New Reconstruction" (with Mary Louise Frampton and Ian Haney Lopez, 2008). His most recent book is "Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear" (2007) winner of the 2008 Book Prize of the Sociology of Law section of the ASA and the 2010 Hindelang Prize of the American Society of Criminology..
Simon is a member of the Law & Society Association where he has served on the Board of Trustees and the Executive Committee. He is also a member of the American Society of Criminology and the American Sociological Association. Simon serves as an editorial board member of Punishment & Society and has served as an associate editor of Law & Society Review.
| Current Institution | University of California, Berkeley |
| Current School | School of Law |
| Department | Law |
| Disciplines | |
| Address | 592 Simon Hall Berkeley California 94720 United States Phone: 510-643-5169 |
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Education
University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D.,
Jurisprudence & Social Policy Program
(1990)
University of California, Berkeley
School of Law
J.D.
(1987)
Work Experience
Professor of Law/Jurisprudence and Social Policy
University of California, Berkeley
(2003 - Present)
Adrian A. Kragen Professor of Law
University of California, Berkeley
(2010 - Present)
Associate Dean for Jurisprudence and Social Policy
School of Law (Boalt Hall)
(Jul 2004 - 2009)
Achievements
General
Publication Summary
Publications
Books Authored
- MASS INCARCERATION ON TRIAL: AMERICA’S COURTS AND THE FUTURE OF IMPRISONMENT (New Press, forthcoming 2012)
- GOVERNING THROUGH CRIME: HOW THE WAR ON CRIME TRANSFORMED AMERICAN DEMOCRACY AND CREATED A CULTURE OF FEAR (Oxford University Press, 2007) Distinguished Book Award 2008, American Sociological Association, Section on the Sociology of Law; Hindelang Award, American Society of Criminology, 2010.
- POOR DISCIPLINE: PAROLE AND THE SOCIAL CONTROL OF THE UNDERCLASS, 1890-1990 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1993) Distinguished Book Award 1994, American Sociological Association, Section on the Sociology of Law
Books Edited
- SAGE HANDBOOK OF PUNISHMENT & SOCIETY with Richard Sparks (Sage, 2012 forthcoming)
- AFTER THE WAR ON CRIME: RACE, DEMOCRACY, AND A NEW RECONSTRUCTION, edited with Mary Louise Frampton and Ian Haney-Lopez (New York University Press, 2008)
- CULTURAL ANALYSIS, CULTURAL STUDIES, AND THE LAW: MOVING BEYOND LEGAL REALISM, edited with Austin Sarat (Duke University Press 2003)
- EMBRACING RISK: THE CHANGING CULTURE OF INSURANCE AND RESPONSIBILITY, edited with Tom Baker (University of Chicago Press 2002)
Articles, Book Chapters, and Reviews
- Punishment and the Political Technologies of the Body, in SAGE HANDBOOK OF PUNISHMENT & SOCIETY Jonathan Simon and Richard Sparks eds. (Sage, 2012 forthcoming)
- Mass incarceration: from social policy to social problem, in Kevin Reitz and Joan Petersilia, eds. THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF SENTENCING AND CORRECTIONS (2012), 23-52
- Total Incapacitation: The Penal Imaginary and the Rise of an Extreme Penal Rationale in California in the 1970s, in Malsch, M. & Duker, M.J.A. (2012). INCAPACITATION: TRENDS AND NEW PERSPECTIVES. Aldershot: Ashgate.
- Editorial: Mass Incarceration on Trial, Punishment & Society, Vol. 13:251-255
- Dignity and Risk: The Long Road from Graham v. Florida to the Abolition of LWOP, in Charles Ogletree and Austin Sarat, (eds). LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE: AMERICA’S NEW DEATH PENALTY (2011)
- How Should we Punish Murder? Excessive Punishment and the Structure of the Law of Murder, 94 MARQUETTE LAW REVIEW (August 2011)
- Drugs Are Not the (Only) Problem: Structural Racism, Mass Imprisonment, and the Overpunishment of Violent Crime in Keith O. Lawrence, ed. RACE, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: BREAKING THE CONNECTION IN AMERICA (Aspen Institute, 2011), 133-148
- Interposition: Segregation, Capital Punishment, and the Forging of the Post-New Deal Political Leader, in AMERICA’S DEATH PENALTY: BETWEEN PAST AND PRESENT, David Garland, Randall McGowan, and Michael Meranze eds. (New York: NYU Press, 2011), 166-190
- Capital Punishment as Homeowner's Insurance: The Rise of the Homeowner Citizen and the Fate of Ultimate Sanctions in Both Europe and the United States, in IS THE DEATH PENALTY DYING? EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES, Austin Sarat and JurgenMartschukat, eds. (Cambrige: Cambridge University Press, 2011) 78-108
- Consuming Obsessions: Housing, Homicide, and Mass Incarceration since 1950, THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LEGAL FORM 2010(October 2010) 141-180
- Beyond the Panopticon: Mass Imprisonment and the Humanities, LAW, CULTURE AND THE HUMANITIES, 6(3) 327-340 (2010)
- Clearing the “troubled assets” of America's punishment bubble, DAEDALUS, 139(3, Summer 2010) 91-101
- Do these prisons make me look fat? Moderating the USA’s consumption of punishment, THEORETICAL CRIMINOLOGY 14(3 August 3, 2010) 257-272
- Il cammino verso l’abolizione: il dibattito sulla penal capitale negli Stati Uniti, in A L’ENIGMA DELLA PENA DI MORTE, a cura di Pietro Costa (Milano: Feltrini, 2010) pp. 195-221
- Recovering the Craft of Policing: Wrongful Convictions, the War on Crime, and the Problem of Security in WHEN LAW FAILS: MAKING SENSE OF MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat eds. NYU Press, 2009
- Choosing our Wars, Transforming Government: Crime, Cancer and Terror, in RISK AND THE WAR ON TERROR, Louise Amoore and Marieke de Goede eds. (London: Routledge, 2008)
- From the New Deal to the Crime Deal, in AFTER THE WAR ON CRIME: RACE, DEMOCRACY, AND A NEW RECONSTRUCTION, Mary Louise Frampton, Ian Haney-Lopez, and Jonathan Simon eds. (New York University Press, 2008)
- War on!: Why a 'war on cancer' should replace our 'war on crime' (and terror) 11 EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES 351-369 (2008)
- Katz at Forty: A Sociological Jurisprudence Whose Time has Come, 41 UC DAVIS LAW REVIEW 935-976 (2008)
- Rise of the Carceral State, SOCIAL RESEARCH 74(2) 471-508 Punishment the US Record (2007)
- Wake of the Flood: Crime, Disaster, and the American Risk Imaginary after Katrina ISSUES IN LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP, Catastrophic Risks: Prevention, Compensation, and Recovery (2007): Article 4.
- Positively Punitive: How the Inventor of Scientific Criminology Who Died at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century Continues to Haunt American Crime Control at the Beginning of the Twenty-First, 84 TEXAS LAW REVIEW 2135-2172 (2006)
- Risk and Reflexivity: What Socio-Legal Studies Add to the Study of Risk and the Law, 57 ALABAMA LAW REVIEW 119-139 (2005)
- Reversal of Fortune: The Resurgence of Personal Risk Assessment in the Criminal Justice System, 1 ANNUAL REVIEW OF LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCE 397-421 (December 2005)
- Parrhesiastic Accountability: Investigatory Commissions and Executive Power in an Age of Terror, 114 YALE LAW JOURNAL 1419-1457 (2005)
- Edgework and Insurance in Risk Societies: Some notes on Victorian Lawyers and Mountaineers, in EDGEWORK: THE SOCIOLOGY OF RISK TAKING, Stephen Lyng, ed. (Routledge: New York, 2005), 203-226
- Teaching Criminal Law in an Era of Governing through Crime, 48 SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY LAW JOURNAL 1313-1335 (2004)
- Thinking About Criminal Justice: Sociolegal Expertise and the Modernization of American Criminal Justice, in THE BLACKWELL COMPANION TO LAW & SOCIETY edited by Austin Sarat (London 2004), pp.
- Peace and Insurance: Recovering the Utopian Vision of Insurance in Royce’s War and Insurance, 10 CONN. INS. L.J. 51-72 (2004)
Books
Governing through CrimeAcross America today gated communities sprawl out from urban centers, employers enforce mandatory drug testing, and schools screen students with metal detectors. Social problems ranging from...
Poor Discipline (Studies in Crime and Justice)This powerful book reveals how modern strategies of punishmentand, by all accounts, their failurerelate to political and economic transformations in society at large. Jonathan Simon uses the... |
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