Race, Class and Criminal Justice Reform with Berkley Professor Jonathan Simon

06/03/18 • 57 min

This was one of the first episodes I did when the podcast was brand new. I wanted to re-release the episode because many of the issues we discussed have been all over the news. I also wanted to re-release the episode as many of our new podcast subscribers didn't get to hear the episode in their feed. We talk about a variety of issues surrounding the modern criminal justice system including how it was formed, and how many issues such as class, and race play into it.

Professor Simon joined the Berkeley Law faculty in 2003 and teaches criminal law, an advanced criminal law seminar on mass incarceration, sociology of law, and several classes in the undergraduate legal studies program (foundations of legal studies; prisons; punishment, culture and society).

https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/jonathan-simon/

https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/jonathan-simon/

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