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Overview

Mona Lynch is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with specific focus on law, sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, political science and international relations, as well as gender studies.

Their work has been published frequently in several venues, including:

  • CrimRxiv
  • Criminology
  • Punishment & Society
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Law & Policy

Significant research topics covered in their publications include:

  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Jury Decision Making Processes
  • Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
  • Policing Practices and Perceptions
  • Judicial and Constitutional Studies

Their recent research papers demonstrate a continued focus on prosecutorial and judicial practices, legal processes, and policy impact. Notable publications include:

  • Prosecutors, court communities, and policy change: The impact of internal DOJ reforms on federal prosecutorial practices* (2021, Criminology)
  • Race, witness credibility, and jury deliberation in a simulated drug trafficking trial (2021, Law and Human Behavior)
  • The subtle effects of implicit bias instructions (2022, Law & Policy)
  • Prosecutors as punishers: A case study of Trump-era practices (2023, Punishment & Society)
  • (Re-)centering Law in the Criminology of Sentencing & Punishment (2024, Criminology Criminal Justice Law & Society)

Mona Lynch has coauthored multiple works with frequent collaborators including:

  • Emily V. Shaw
  • Sofia Laguna
  • Matt Barno
  • Marisa Omori
  • Taylor Kidd

In addition to journal papers, they have contributed to book publications. One such publication is Sunbelt Justice, published by Stanford University Press eBooks in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Waste Managers? the New Penology, Crime Fighting, and Parole Agent Identity

    Mona Lynch

  • The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society

    Mona Lynch

  • Rehabilitation as Rhetoric: The Ideal of Reformation in Contemporary Parole Discourse and Practices

    Mona Lynch

  • Sunbelt Justice: Arizona and the Transformation of American Punishment

    Mona Lynch

  • Discrimination and instructional comprehension: guided discretion, racial bias, and the death penalty.

    Mona Lynch;Craig Haney

  • Pedophiles and Cyber-predators as Contaminating Forces: The Language of Disgust, Pollution, and Boundary Invasions in Federal Debates on Sex Offender Legislation

    Mona Lynch

  • Mass incarceration, legal change, and locale: understanding and remediating American penal overindulgence

    Mona Lynch

  • Theorizing the role of the ‘war on drugs’ in US punishment

    Mona Lynch

  • A Pound of Flesh: Monetary Sanctions as Punishment for the Poor:

    Mona Lynch

  • Policing the progressive city: The racialized geography of drug law enforcement

    Mona Lynch;Marisa Omori;Aaron Roussell;Matthew Valasik

  • Theorizing punishment’s boundaries: An introduction

    Kelly Hannah-Moffat;Mona Lynch

  • Legal Change and Sentencing Norms in the Wake of Booker: The Impact of Time and Place on Drug Trafficking Cases in Federal Court

    Mona Lynch;Marisa Omori

  • Focally Concerned About Focal Concerns: A Conceptual and Methodological Critique of Sentencing Disparities Research

    Mona Lynch

  • Capital jury deliberation: effects on death sentencing, comprehension, and discrimination.

    Mona Lynch;Craig Haney

  • Emotion, Authority, and Death: (Raced) Negotiations in Mock Capital Jury Deliberations

    Mona Lynch;Craig Haney

  • Mapping the Racial Bias of the White Male Capital Juror: Jury Composition and the “Empathic Divide”

    Mona Lynch;Craig Haney

  • Comprehending life and death matters

    Craig Haney;Mona Lynch

  • Hard Bargains: The Coercive Power of Drug Laws in Federal Court

    Mona Lynch

  • Crack as Proxy: Aggressive Federal Drug Prosecutions and the Production of Black–White Racial Inequality

    Mona Lynch;Marisa Omori

  • Crack Pipes and Policing: A Case Study of Institutional Racism and Remedial Action in Cleveland

    Mona Lynch

  • Punishing Images Jail Cam and the Changing Penal Enterprise

    Mona Lynch

  • Capital punishment as moral imperative: Pro-death-penalty discourse on the Internet

    Mona Lynch

  • Backpacking the Border: The Intersection of Drug and Immigration Prosecutions in a High-volume US Court

    Mona Lynch

  • Theorizing Punishment: Reflections on Wacquant’s Punishing the Poor:

    Mona Lynch

Frequent Co-Authors

Craig Haney
Craig Haney University of California, Santa Cruz
Kelly Hannah-Moffat
Kelly Hannah-Moffat University of Toronto

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