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Jonathan Simon
Researcher at University of California, Berkeley
Publications - 110
Citations - 6087
Jonathan Simon is an academic researcher from University of California, Berkeley. The author has contributed to research in topics: Prison & Mass incarceration. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 109 publications receiving 5854 citations. Previous affiliations of Jonathan Simon include Marquette University & University of Michigan.
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The New Penology : Notes on the emerging strategy of corrections and its implications
Malcolm M Feeley,Jonathan Simon +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that an important new language of penology is emerging, which shifts focus away from the traditional concerns of the criminal law and criminology, which have focused on the individual, and redirects it to actuarial consideration of aggregates.
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Poor discipline : parole and the social control of the underclass, 1890-1990
TL;DR: In this paper, Simon uses the practice of parole in California as a window to the changing historical understanding of what a corrections system does and how it works, and reveals how modern strategies of punishment relate to political and economic transformations in society at large.
Book
Governing through Crime
TL;DR: The impulse to power that characterizes established governments has manifested in a complex, entrenched, and uncontrolled pattern in the United States, of governing through crime as discussed by the authors, which has fundamentally altered American democracy, forging profound changes in the institutions of democracy: legislative, executive, and judicial.
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Managing the monstrous: Sex offenders and the new penology.
TL;DR: Recently, a new penology has been proposed by as mentioned in this paper, which sees crime as a problem of managing high-risk categories and subpopulations, not normalizing individuals to community norms.