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Jocelyn Simonson

Jocelyn Simonson is Associate Professor at Brooklyn Law School, where she writes and teaches about criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence, and social change. She studies bottom-up interventions in the criminal legal system, such as bail funds, copwatching, courtwatching, and participatory defense, asking how these real-life interventions should inform our conceptions of the design of criminal justice institutions, the discourse of constitutional rights, and the meaning of democratic justice. Her article “Police Reform Through a Power Lens” is forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal. She tweets @j_simonson.

Articles

When we think, write, and act alongside movements, we help disrupt the everyday violence of law and imagine more radical transformation.

Amna A. Akbar, Jocelyn Simonson, Sameer Ashar
Reform efforts will fail. Only a power shift to communities can improve public safety.
Jocelyn Simonson

The Mass Bail Out at Rikers Island shows that freedom is a critical part of public safety.

Jocelyn Simonson

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