Jocelyn Simonson

Jocelyn Simonson is Associate Professor at Brooklyn Law School and author of Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People are Dismantling Incarceration.

What Movements Do to Law

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

Power over Policing

Reform efforts will fail. Only a power shift to communities can improve public safety.

  • Jocelyn Simonson

In the Name of Public Safety

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

  • Jocelyn Simonson
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