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Future HindsightRadical Justice is the Way: Jocelyn SimonsonWe discuss how certain radical acts of justice by everyday people challenge the legitimacy of the criminal system and form the underpinning of a new collective legal thought, demosprudence. Collective understanding of justice and safety is changing away from the concept that justice equals cages. Jocelyn's civic action toolkit recommendations are: 1) Be a court watcher! 2) Learn about your city's or county's budget Jocelyn Simonson is Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, a former public defender, and the author of Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are...
2025-07-3146 minFuture HindsightRadical Justice is the Way: Jocelyn SimonsonWe discuss how certain radical acts of justice by everyday people challenge the legitimacy of the criminal system and form the underpinning of a new collective legal thought, demosprudence. Collective understanding of justice and safety is changing away from the concept that justice equals cages. Jocelyn's civic action toolkit recommendations are: 1) Be a court watcher! 2) Learn about your city's or county's budget Jocelyn Simonson is Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, a former public defender, and the author of Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are...
2025-07-3146 min
Sad FranciscoSolidarity in Times of Repression f/ Dean Spade[This episode went up back in September, but it felt OK to put it back on the feed for anyone who might've missed it. New episodes soon.] As liberation movements face intense repression from CEOs, cops, landlords, politicians, and Zionists, Dean Spade and friends put together a list of questions we can all ask ourselves, so we don't reproduce the logics of the state. Dean is author of the classics Mutual Aid and Normal Life: Administrative Violence and the Limits of the Law, and future classic Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Re...
2024-11-1445 min
Sad FranciscoSolidarity in Times of Repression f/ Dean Spade"Cultivating Solidarity in Times of Escalating Repression" (Dean, with Community Justice Exchange, Jocelyn Simonson, Pilar Weiss, Atara Rich-Shea and Zohra Ahmed: http://bit.ly/cultivatesolidarity As liberation movements face intense repression from CEOs, cops, landlords, politicians, and Zionists, https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/over-60-people-indicted-on-rico-charges-in-atlanta-allegedly-promoting-anarchist-ideas/ Official Indictment: https://unicornriot.ninja/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/atlanta-rico-indicts-doc-official.pdf Dean Spade and friends put together a list of questions we can all ask ourselves, so we don't reproduce the logics of the state. Dean is author of the classics Mutual Aid and...
2024-09-0942 min
Questions morales et enjeux politiques dans les sociétés contemporaines - Didier FassinColloque - Jocelyn Simonson : Collective Resistance within Criminal Courts: Re-Defining Justice and Safety from BelowDidier FassinQuestions morales et enjeux politiques dans les sociétés contemporainesCollège de FranceAnnée 2023-2024Colloque - Jocelyn Simonson : Collective Resistance within Criminal Courts: Re-Defining Justice and Safety from BelowJocelyn SimonsonBrooklyn Law School
2024-05-2842 min
Colloques du Collège de France - Collège de FranceColloque - Jocelyn Simonson : Collective Resistance within Criminal Courts: Re-Defining Justice and Safety from BelowDidier FassinQuestions morales et enjeux politiques dans les sociétés contemporainesCollège de FranceAnnée 2023-2024Colloque - Jocelyn Simonson : Collective Resistance within Criminal Courts: Re-Defining Justice and Safety from BelowJocelyn SimonsonBrooklyn Law School
2024-05-2842 min
Unpacking 1619 - A Heights Libraries PodcastEpisode 55 – Radical Acts of Justice with Jocelyn SimonsonProfessor Jocelyn Simonson talks about her book, Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration. Beginning with a close look at the ideological meaning behind calling the prosecution, “The People,” Prof. Simonson points out how the criminal justice systems defines “community.” By looking at several ways activists and volunteers engage in organized […]
2024-04-3000 minUnpacking 1619 - A Heights Libraries PodcastEpisode 55 – Radical Acts of Justice with Jocelyn SimonsonProfessor Jocelyn Simonson talks about her book, Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration. Beginning with a close look at the […]
2024-04-3000 min
The Democracy GroupBest of 2023: Radical Acts of Justice: Jocelyn Simonson | Future HindsightWe continue our Best of 2023 episodes with an episode from the Future Hindsight podcast, hosted by Mila Atmos.Jocelyn Simonson is Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, a former public defender, and the author of Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration. We discuss how certain radical acts of justice challenge the legitimacy of the criminal system and form the underpinning of a new collective legal thought.The four pillars of this work comprise of court watching, community bail funds, participatory defense, and people’s budgets. Bail funds are pulling the...
2023-12-0448 minThe Democracy GroupRadical Acts of Justice: Jocelyn Simonson | Future HindsightJocelyn Simonson is Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, a former public defender, and the author of Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration. We discuss how certain radical acts of justice challenge the legitimacy of the criminal system and form the underpinning of a new collective legal thought.The four pillars of this work comprise of court watching, community bail funds, participatory defense, and people’s budgets. Bail funds are pulling the rug out from the system's justification for what it's doing. Defunding the system in this way shows that the co...
2023-10-1848 min
KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat BrooksDV Awareness Month and Dismantling Incarceration w/ Tracy McCarter and Jocelyn SimonsonOctober is National Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention Month.
On today’s show, we’ll be in conversation with Tracy McCarter, a nurse and grandmother who was jailed after her husband died of a stab wound that was inflicted while Tracy was defending herself from a violent attack. Her story is chronicled in a new book called Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Incarceration. That book is by our second guest, Jocelyn Simonson, a Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School. She writes and teaches about criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence, and social change. Her s...
2023-10-1757 min
Future HindsightRadical Acts of Justice: Jocelyn SimonsonThursday, October 5th, 2023 Jocelyn Simonson is Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, a former public defender, and the author of Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration. We discuss how certain radical acts of justice challenge the legitimacy of the criminal system and form the underpinning of a new collective legal thought. The four pillars of this work comprise of court watching, community bail funds, participatory defense, and people's budgets. Bail funds are pulling the rug out from the system's justification for what it's doing. Defunding th...
2023-10-0547 minFuture HindsightRadical Acts of Justice: Jocelyn SimonsonThursday, October 5th, 2023 Jocelyn Simonson is Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, a former public defender, and the author of Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration. We discuss how certain radical acts of justice challenge the legitimacy of the criminal system and form the underpinning of a new collective legal thought. The four pillars of this work comprise of court watching, community bail funds, participatory defense, and people's budgets. Bail funds are pulling the rug out from the system's justification for what it's doing. Defunding th...
2023-10-0547 min
El podcast de Jeny Mejía AguirreDomestic Violence Survivor Tracy McCarter & Author Jocelyn Simonson On Dismantling Mass IncarcerationPart 2 of our interview with domestic violence survivor Tracy McCarter, about the grassroots campaign that won her freedom; and Jocelyn Simonson, author of “Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People are Dismantling Incarceration.”
2023-10-0229 min
The Transform Justice PodcastEp25: Problem-solving courts - compassion or control?Problem-solving courts have long been hailed as a progressive alternative to traditional punishment. In theory, these experimental courtrooms recognise and address the root causes of crime and humanise those who come into contact with the criminal justice system. And some research shows they lead to better outcomes. But today we ask: are problem-solving courts the answer, or are they a barrier to putting resources where they really need to be?
Hosts Rob and Penelope are joined by Phil Bowen, Director for the Centre for Justice Innovation, and Jocelyn Simonson, Professor at Brooklyn Law School...
2023-09-2932 min
Town Hall Seattle Civics Series331. Jocelyn Simonson with Emily Thuma: The Power of the PeopleHow can we fix the problems in our criminal justice system? In a feat that can seem insurmountable, a common approach is to leave the solution to experts and technocrats. But what if, instead of deferring solely to their knowledge, some of this much-needed change was carried out by the people? In her new book Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration, former attorney and law professor Jocelyn Simonson tells the stories of ordinary people joining together in collective acts of resistance: paying bail for a stranger, using social media to i...
2023-09-261h 06
Black Talk Radio News w/ Scotty ReidBTR News – Radical Acts of Justice: A Conversation with Professor Jocelyn SimonsonListen to this enlightening episode of BTR News as I engage in a compelling conversation with Professor Jocelyn Simonson, acclaimed author of "Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration." In this thought-provoking interview, Professor Simonson delves into the heart of her groundbreaking book, shedding light on the extraordinary ways in which everyday individuals are challenging and reshaping the landscape of mass incarceration.
Professor Simonson's insights are not only informed by her extensive legal background but also by her recent article, "Forget Trump, the Latest Georgia RICO Case Is a Disaster for Civil Liberties," which critically examines...
2023-09-2645 min
Black Talk Radio NetworkBTR News – Radical Acts of Justice: A Conversation with Professor Jocelyn SimonsonListen to this enlightening episode of BTR News as I engage in a compelling conversation with Professor Jocelyn Simonson, acclaimed author of "Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration." In this thought-provoking interview, Professor Simonson delves into the heart of her groundbreaking book, shedding light on the extraordinary ways in which everyday individuals are challenging and reshaping the landscape of mass incarceration.
Professor Simonson's insights are not only informed by her extensive legal background but also by her recent article, "Forget Trump, the Latest Georgia RICO Case Is a Disaster for Civil Liberties," which critically examines...
2023-09-2645 min
Black Talk Radio News w/ Scotty ReidBTR News – Radical Acts of Justice: A Conversation with Professor Jocelyn SimonsonListen to this enlightening episode of BTR News as I engage in a compelling conversation with Professor Jocelyn Simonson, acclaimed author of “Radical Acts of…
2023-09-2645 minBlog – BLACK TALK RADIO NETWORK™BTR News – Radical Acts of Justice: A Conversation with Professor Jocelyn SimonsonListen to this enlightening episode of BTR News as I engage in a compelling conversation with Professor Jocelyn Simonson, acclaimed author of "Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration." In this thought-provoking interview, Professor Simonson delves into the heart of her groundbreaking book, shedding light on the extraordinary ways in which everyday individuals are challenging and reshaping the landscape of mass incarceration.
Professor Simonson's insights are not only informed by her extensive legal background but also by her recent article, "Forget Trump, the Latest Georgia RICO Case Is a Disaster for Civil Liberties," which critically examines...
2023-09-2645 min
Dismantling InjusticeHow Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass IncarcerationWe interrupt our summer #StaffPick series for a special conversation with Jocelyn Simonson, professor of law, former public defender and author of the new book Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration. Carl and Jocelyn explore how ordinary individuals are sparking extraordinary change within the criminal legal system through bail funds, court watching, participatory defense and peoples’ budgets. Discover how these approaches challenge the system from within, redefine safety and reclaim the power of the people. Listen now and purchase Radical Acts of Justice today!
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2023-08-2831 min
Law on FilmFruitvale Station (Guest: Michael Pinard) (episode 9)Fruitvale Station (2013) is based on the real-life events leading to the death of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old black man who was shot and killed by a Bay Area Rapid Transit officer on New Year’s Day 2009 at the Fruitvale district station in Oakland, California. The film depicts the final day in Oscar Grant’s life, interspersed with flashbacks from his past, which together provide a richly layered picture a young man whose life was tragically cut short. The film was written and directed by Ryan Coogler (in his first feature film), and stars Michael B. Jordan as Oscar Grant...
2023-08-0841 min
History Behind News ProgramS1E39: defunding the police fails - our criminal justice systems & our "communities"?Defund PD? Not in Minneapolis! Per Prof. Simonson, historically Democrats funded America's PDs in the name of Civil Rights. Minneapolis gets to keep its police department. That's the outcome of last week's ballot vote.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called for police officers "to make sure they are working directly with the community to keep us safe." In our podcast conversation, Professor Jocelyn Simonson brings attention to the complexity of the term "community". What is exactly a community and who is in it? Frankly, before this podcast conversation, I was under the impression that the term community had a...
2021-11-121h 05
The Yale Law Journal PodcastPower-Shifting in PolicingThe need for transformative change to policing is clear. But the United States continues to grapple with what that change should look like – and who should have the power to decide. In this episode, Professor Jocelyn Simonson speaks to why we should view the regulation of policing through what she terms “the power lens,” and outlines the importance of shifting power over policing to directly impacted communities. Tracey Corder, a Deputy Campaign Director for the Action Center on Race and the Economy and an organizer with the People’s Coalition for Safety and Freedom, joins us to discuss her work and...
2021-04-2340 min
Yale Journal of Biology and MedicineYJBM Special Series: Racism and Health – Episode 2: Interview with Dr. Monica BellAlthough we typically cover topics that address the biomedical sciences, epidemiology, and healthcare practice, it is no secret that the systemic biases, residential segregation, violent responses to protesting, and further injustices that we see today alldrive healthcare inequality and inform the topics and methods of research/practice for our audience. In light of the recent murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Elijah McClain, among others, we’ve decided to use our platform as an avenue of communication for esteemed researchers in the fields of policing, Law, and criminal justice. In this episode, Wes interviews Dr. Monica Bell regarding race an...
2020-08-0555 min
Oral ArgumentEpisode 187: Both Sides of the VJocelyn Simonson returns to the show to wake us up to the many public interests on both sides (and no sides and all sides) in criminal cases. We discuss whether prosecutors are synonymous with "the People" and how a broader conception of "the People's" interests in criminal adjudication might suggest more robust public participation in the criminal process.
Jocelyn Simonson’s faculty profile and writing
Jocelyn Simonson, The Place of "the People" in Criminal Procedure
Oral Argument 95: Own the Block (guest Jocelyn Simonson)
Serial Season 3
Marie Gottschalk, Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics
Unsigned No...
2019-01-121h 16Oral ArgumentEpisode 95: Own the BlockDo you have a right to film the police? Should people film the police? A lot of attention has been given to the use by police officers of body cameras (and dash cameras), but what about citizens’ filming arrests on the street? With Jocelyn Simonson, we explore the ways that the use of cameras both facilitates and is expression.
This show’s links:
Jocelyn Simonson’s facult profile and writing
Oral Argument 64: Protect and Serve (guest Seth Stoughton)
Jocelyn Simonson, Beyond Body Cameras: Defending a Robust Right to Record the Police
Timothy Williams, James Thomas, Samuel Jacoby...
2016-04-161h 14