Jonathan Simon

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

Simon studied at the University of California, Berkeley , where he received his Ph.D. PhD . After teaching and research activities at various US universities, including Yale University , he became Professor of Law at the University of Miami in 1996 and returned to Berkeley as Professor in 2003.

In his book “Governing Through Crime. How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear ” (2007) he advocates (in contrast to David W. Garland ) the thesis that it is not the crime situation that has changed, but only the state's reaction to crime. On the one hand, crime is dramatized and fear is fueled, on the other hand, it is managed. Governing through crime is an active state policy to maintain the relations of rule. In the late 1980s, he coined the term for the resulting social control practice access society to German Access Society , which was used later in a different context.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernd Dollinger, Henning Schmidt-Semisch: Just Exclusion ?: Welfare Production and the New Pleasure of Punishment , Springer-Verlag 2011, page 251
2. ↑ Jeremy Rifkin : Access. The disappearance of property , Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-59336-541-3 .
3. ^ Paul Liebrecht: The emergence of the access society. Chances of car sharing through cultural change. Diploma thesis at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, course cultural work in the department of architecture and urban planning 2014

Fonts (selection)

• 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 .
• 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 .
• Poor discipline. Parole and the Social Control of the Underclass, 1890-1990 . University of Chicago Press, 1993, ISBN 978-0-226-75856-5 .

Web links

• University of California (Berkeley) personal page
• Simon's posts on The Berkeley Blog, the University of California's blog
• Jonathan Simon's blogs at blogger.com
• Governing Through Crime on Google Books
• Fritz Sack : How criminal policy helps the state. Governing through Crime as a new political strategy , accessed September 23, 2015.