October 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 scholarship explores ways in which the public participates in the criminal process and in the institutions of local governance that control policing and punishment. In particular, 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 institutions in the criminal legal system, the discourse of constitutional rights, and the meaning of democratic justice.

Follow Jocelyn Simonson on Twitter: https://twitter.com/j_simonson

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