Jonathan Simon

Jonathan Simon ( born 1959 ) is an American legal scholar, sociologist and criminologist. His theory of "Governing Through Crime" ( " Ruling by the crime " ) is rezipiert extensively in the international criminal sociology.

Simon studied at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was 1990 Ph.D. doctorate. After teaching and research activities at various U.S. universities, including Yale University, in 1996 he became professor of law at the University of Miami and returned in 2003 as a professor to Berkeley.

In his book "Governing Through Crime. How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear " (2007) he represents (different from David W. Garland) the theory that the crime situation had not changed, but only the government response to crime. On one hand, crime will dramatized and so stoked fear, on the other hand they 'll managed. Governing trough Crime was active government policy to maintain relations of domination.

Works

• Mass Incarceration on Trial. A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America. 1st edition. The New Press, New York 2014, ISBN 978-1-59558-769-5, OCLC 744,288,394th
• Governing through Crime. How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear. 1st edition. Oxford University Press, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-518108-1, OCLC 64,591,955th
• Poor Discipline. Parole and the Social Control of the Underclass, 1890-1990. University of Chicago Press, 1993, ISBN 978-0-226-75856-5, OCLC 28,025,808th