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Michael J. Lynch is affiliated with the University of South Florida in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Environmental Science. Within these broader fields, their work focuses on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Statistics and Probability, Geography, Planning and Development, and Strategy and Management.

Key research topics addressed by Michael J. Lynch include:

  • Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
  • Geographies of human-animal interactions
  • Regulation and Compliance Studies
  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
  • Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

Their recent notable publications include:

  • "Green Criminology: Capitalism, Green Crime and Justice, and Environmental Destruction," 2021, Annual Review of Criminology
  • "Green Criminology and State-Corporate Crime: The Ecocide-Genocide Nexus with Examples from Nigeria," 2020, Journal of Genocide Research
  • "Ethnicity, Poverty, Race, and the Unequal Distribution of US Safe Drinking Water Act Violations, 2016-2018," 2022, Sociological Quarterly
  • "Punishing environmental offenders: criminal environmental sentencing in Louisiana, 2004-2014," 2021, Journal of Crime and Justice
  • "Cruelty against Animals' Welfare (CAAW) Violations: a Study of Animal Welfare Act and Horse Welfare Act Enforcement Actions in the US, 2010-2014," 2021, Sociological Spectrum

Michael J. Lynch collaborates frequently with several co-authors including:

  • Michael A. Long
  • Paul B. Stretesky
  • Kenneth J. Berry
  • Janis E. Johnston
  • Leo J. Genco

Their work has appeared repeatedly in the following publication venues:

  • Sociological Spectrum
  • Race and Justice
  • International Journal for Crime Justice and Social Democracy
  • Annual Review of Criminology
  • Journal of Genocide Research

Michael J. Lynch has authored books published by Cambridge University Press, Society, Environment and Statistics, and University of Michigan Press. Specific titles include:

  • "Applying Benford's Law for Assessing the Validity of Social Science Data," 2023
  • "Permutation Statistical Methods for Criminology and Criminal Justice," 2025
  • "Broken Record," 2024

Best Publications

  • The Meaning of Green: Contrasting Criminological Perspectives

    Michael J. Lynch;Paul B. Stretsky

  • The Treadmill of Crime: Political Economy and Green Criminology

    Paul B. Stretesky;Michael A Long;Michael J Lynch

  • The relationship between lead exposure and homicide.

    Paul B. Stretesky;Michael J. Lynch

  • Exploring Green Criminology: Toward a Green Criminological Revolution

    Michael J. Lynch;Paul B. Stretesky

  • Is It a Crime to Produce Ecological Disorganization? Why Green Criminology and Political Economy Matter in the Analysis of Global Ecological Harms

    Michael J. Lynch;Michael A. Long;Kimberly L. Barrett;Paul B. Stretesky

  • A cross-national study of the association between per capita carbon dioxide emissions and exports to the United States

    Paul B. Stretesky;Michael J. Lynch

  • Corporate Crime Corporate Violence: A Primer

    Nancy Frank;Michael J. Lynch

  • The relationship between lead and crime.

    Paul B. Stretesky;Michael J. Lynch

  • A Primer in Radical Criminology

    Richard Rosenfeld;Michael J. Lynch;W. Byron Groves

  • Determinants of Environmental Law Violation Fines Against Petroleum Refineries: Race, Ethnicity, Income, and Aggregation Effects

    Michael J. Lynch;Paul B. Stretesky;Ronald G. Burns

  • Global warming and state-corporate crime: the politicalization of global warming under the Bush administration

    Michael J. Lynch;Ronald G. Burns;Paul B. Stretesky

  • Race and Criminal Justice

    Michael J. Lynch;E. Britt Patterson

  • Toxic Crimes: Examining Corporate Victimization of the General Public Employing Medical and Epidemiological Evidence

    Michael J. Lynch;Paul Stretesky

  • Disappearing act: The representation of corporate crime research in criminological literature

    Michael J. Lynch;Danielle McGurrin;Melissa Fenwick

  • Corporate environmental violence and racism

    Paul Stretesky;Michael J. Lynch

  • ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND THE PREDICTIONS OF DISTANCE TO ACCIDENTAL CHEMICAL RELEASES IN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FLORIDA

    Paul Stretesky;Michael J. Lynch

  • The New Primer in Radical Criminology: Critical Perspectives on Crime, Power and Identity

    W. Byron Groves;Raymond J. Michalowski;Michael J Lynch

  • Green Criminology: Crime, Justice, and the Environment

    Michael J. Lynch;Michael A. Long;Paul B. Stretesky;Kimberly L. Barrett

  • Crime in the Coal Industry Implications for Green Criminology and Treadmill of Production

    Michael A. Long;Paul B. Stretesky;Michael J. Lynch;Emily Fenwick

  • Does environmental enforcement slow the treadmill of production? The relationship between large monetary penalties, ecological disorganization and toxic releases within offending corporations

    Paul B. Stretesky;Michael A. Long;Michael J. Lynch

  • Environmental hazards and school segregation in Hillsborough County, Florida, 1987-1999

    Paul B. Stretesky;Michael J. Lynch

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul B. Stretesky
Paul B. Stretesky Northumbria University
Wesley G. Jennings
Wesley G. Jennings University of Mississippi
John K. Cochran
John K. Cochran University of South Florida
Eugene McLaughlin
Eugene McLaughlin City, University of London
Joshua C. Cochran
Joshua C. Cochran University of Cincinnati

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