# Jonathan Simon

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).