Jonathan Simon
Jonathan Simon is an American academic, the Lance Robbins Professor of Criminal Justice Law, and the 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.
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