Crime Inc. Podcast

I am joined by retired police officer Beau Tribolet to talk about police unions. 

I am once again joined by Bekeley Law School Professor Jonathan Simon. We talk about community police relations, the history of how we got to where we are, and what can be done going forward. 

On this episode I am joined by Berkeley Law School Professor Jonathan Simon. Professor Simon has been on the podcast before and I always learn a lot from him. On this episode we speak about the concept of "governing through crime."

The following is more about Professor Simon from his professor profile which can be found at:

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

"Jonathan Simon joined the Berkeley Law faculty in 2003 as part of the J.D., JSP, and Legal Studies programs. He teaches in the areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, criminology, legal studies and the sociology of law.  

Simon's scholarship concerns the role of crime and criminal justice in governing contemporary societies, risk and the law, and the history of the interdisciplinary study of law. His published works include over seventy articles and book chapters, and three single authored monographs, including: Poor Discipline: Parole and the Social Control of the Underclass (University of Chicago 1993, winner of the American Sociological Association's sociology of law book prize, 1994), Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear (Oxford University Press 2007, winner of the American Society of Criminology, Hindelang Award 2010) and Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America (New Press 2014). Simon has served as the co-editor-in-chief of the journal, Punishment and Society, and the co-editor of the Sage Handbook of Punishment & Society (along with Richard Sparks). He is a member of the Law & Society Association and the American Society of Criminology. Simon's scholarship has been recognized internationally with appointment as a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at the University of Edinburgh (2010-11), a Fellow of the Israeli Institute for Advanced Studies (2016), and a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2018). In 2016 Simon was recognized for his scholarship on the human rights of prisoners with the Docteur honoris causa de la Faculté et de l'Institut, Faculté de Droit et Criminologie, Université Catholique de Louvain."

This is part two of my conversation with a woman who spent a number of years as a prison guard in a maximum security prison. We cover a wide range of topics related to prisons and prison guards. 

On this episode I am joined by a woman who spent a number of years as a prison guard in a maximum security prison. We cover a wide range of topics related to prisons and prison guards. 

This is an episode I did several months ago with a person who used to work as a prison guard at a super max prison. I wanted to rerun the episode for new listeners that may not have heard it the first time it was run. 

This is part two of my conversation with Lisa Hanna about her journey from law school to prison to being a lawyer. We speak about a variety of topics including drugs, prison reform, and many other topics. 

My guest Lisa Hanna has an amazing story to tell. On part 1 we discuss her drug addiction and the choices that led her to prison. 

On this episode I am joined by two members of the Arizona Innocence Project to talk about their work.