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Mona Lynch

Criminal Justice

#238

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#265

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Criminology

#155

World Rank

#171

Historical Rank

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Mona Lynch's Degrees

PhD Criminology, Law and Society University of California, Irvine
Masters Criminology, Law and Society University of California, Irvine
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara

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According to Wikipedia, Mona Pauline Lynch is an American criminologist and Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and Law at the University of California, Irvine, where she is also co-director of the Center in Law, Society and Culture.

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Mona Lynch's Published Works

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The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society (2002) (310)
Waste Managers? the New Penology, Crime Fighting, and Parole Agent Identity (1998) (251)
A Pound of Flesh: Monetary Sanctions as Punishment for the Poor (2018) (151)
Rehabilitation as Rhetoric (2000) (135)
Discrimination and Instructional Comprehension: Guided Discretion, Racial Bias, and the Death Penalty (2000) (131)
Pedophiles and Cyber-predators as Contaminating Forces: The Language of Disgust, Pollution, and Boundary Invasions in Federal Debates on Sex Offender Legislation (2002) (107)
Mass incarceration, legal change, and locale: understanding and remediating American penal overindulgence (2011) (85)
Theorizing the role of the ‘war on drugs’ in US punishment (2012) (74)
Sunbelt Justice: Arizona and the Transformation of American Punishment (2009) (67)
Policing the ‘progressive’ city: The racialized geography of drug law enforcement (2013) (66)
Capital Jury Deliberation: Effects on Death Sentencing, Comprehension, and Discrimination (2009) (58)
Theorizing punishment’s boundaries: An introduction (2012) (58)
Mapping the Racial Bias of the White Male Capital Juror: Jury Composition and the “Empathic Divide” (2011) (57)
Focally Concerned About Focal Concerns: A Conceptual and Methodological Critique of Sentencing Disparities Research (2019) (52)
Emotion, Authority, and Death: (Raced) Negotiations in Mock Capital Jury Deliberations (2015) (46)
Comprehending life and death matters (1994) (45)
Sunbelt Justice (2020) (44)
Legal Change and Sentencing Norms in the Wake of Booker: The Impact of Time and Place on Drug Trafficking Cases in Federal Court (2014) (43)
Clarifying Life and Death Matters: An Analysis of Instructional Comprehension and Penalty Phase Closing Arguments (1997) (36)
From the Punitive City to the Gated Community: Security and Segregation across the Social and Penal Landscape (2001) (32)
Backpacking the Border: The Intersection of Drug and Immigration Prosecutions in a High-volume US Court (2017) (29)
Punishing Images (2004) (27)
Crack Pipes and Policing: A Case Study of Institutional Racism and Remedial Action in Cleveland (2011) (25)
Capital punishment as moral imperative (2002) (24)
Theorizing Punishment: Reflections on Wacquant’s Punishing the Poor (2011) (16)
Looking Across the Empathic Divide: Racialized Decision Making on the Capital Jury (2011) (16)
On‐line Executions: The Symbolic Use of the Electric Chair in Cyberspace (2000) (15)
The Narrative of the Number: Quantification in Criminal Court (2019) (14)
Hard Bargains: The Coercive Power of Drug Laws in Federal Court (2016) (13)
Crack as Proxy: Aggressive Federal Drug Prosecutions and the Production of Black–White Racial Inequality (2018) (13)
Punishment, purpose, and place: A case study of Arizona's prison siting decisions (2009) (12)
Prosecutorial Discretion, Hidden Costs, and the Death Penalty: The Case of Los Angeles County (2012) (12)
Institutionalizing Bias: The Death Penalty, Federal Drug Prosecutions, and Mechanisms of Disparate Punishment (2014) (11)
The death penalty. (2008) (9)
The calculus of the record: Criminal history in the making of US Federal Sentencing Guidelines (2016) (8)
Selling ‘securityware’ (2002) (7)
The Imprisonment Boom of the Late Twentieth Century (2018) (6)
Prosecutorial Discretion, Drug Case Selection, and Inequality in Federal Court (2018) (5)
Prosecutors, court communities, and policy change: The impact of internal DOJ reforms on federal prosecutorial practices* (2021) (5)
The Social Psychology of Capital Cases (2016) (5)
Penal Artifacts: Mining Documents to Advance Punishment and Society Theory (2017) (4)
The Subtle Effects of Implicit Bias Instructions (2022) (3)
Sarat's When the State Kills and the Transformation of Death Penalty Scholarship (2002) (3)
Race, witness credibility, and jury deliberation in a simulated drug trafficking trial. (2021) (3)
Death Qualification in Black and White: Racialized Decision Making and Death‐Qualified Juries (2018) (3)
The Social Psychology of Mass Imprisonment (2012) (3)
94 Different Countries? Time, Place, and Variations in Federal Criminal Justice (2018) (3)
Booker Circumvention? Adjudication Strategies in the Advisory Sentencing Guidelines Era (2019) (3)
Afterword: Criminal Justice and the Problem of Institutionalized Bias—Comments on Theory and Remedial Action (2015) (3)
Realigning Research: A Proposed (Partial) Agenda for Sociolegal Scholars (2013) (2)
Cross-Sectional Challenges: Gender, Race, and Six-Person Juries (2015) (2)
Regressive Prosecutors: Law and Order Politics and Practices in Trump’s DOJ (2020) (1)
Review Essay: Thinking about the past and envisioning the future: A Review Essay of Candace Kruttschnitt and Rosemary Gartner, Marking Time in the Golden State: Women’s Imprisonment in California (2011) (1)
Introduction: 20th anniversary special issue (2018) (1)
The Truth of Verdicts? A Social Psychological Examination of A Theory of the Trial (2003) (1)
Place, race, and variations in federal criminal justice practices (2019) (1)
Im)migrating Penal Excess (2015) (1)
Understanding and remediating American penal overindulgence (2011) (1)
(Im)migrating Penal Excess: Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the Case of Maricopa County, Arizona (2015) (1)
Selecting Charges (0)
Issue 2 May 2017 Not an “ Iron Pipeline ” , but Many Capillaries : Regulating Passive Transactions in LA ’ s Illegal Gun Market (2017) (0)
Overcoming Dehumanization: The Challenge for a Jurisprudence of Dignity (2016) (0)
Expanding the Empirical Picture of Federal Sentencing: An Invitation (2011) (0)
Book Reviews (2000) (0)
Book Review: Jurors’ stories of death: How America’s death penalty invests in inequality (2005) (0)
Book Review: Dead certainty: The death penalty and the problem of judgment, Jennifer Culbert. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008. 248 pp. $21.95 (pbk). ISBN10: 0804757461 (2010) (0)
DEATH QUALIFICATION IN SEDGWICK COUNTY, KANSAS (2022) (0)
Double Duty: The Amplified Role of Special Circumstances in California’s Capital Punishment System (2020) (0)
The Invisible Scholar: Authors of Legal Scholarship in Criminology and Criminal Justice Journals (2019) (0)
Introductory editorial (2017) (0)
Prosecutors as punishers: A case study of Trump-era practices (2023) (0)
Juror perceptions of incentivized informant testimony (2023) (0)
Capital Punishment and the US Cultural Imagination: Daniel LaChance's Executing Freedom (2018) (0)

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