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Mona Lynch

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Mona Lynch
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of California, Santa Cruz
Stanford University
Known forSociology of law
Awards2016 Stanton Wheeler Mentorship Award from the Law and Society Association
Scientific career
FieldsCriminology
Sociology
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Irvine
PatronsNational Science Foundation[1]
ThesisDefendant/Victim Race, Juror Comprehension, and Capital Sentencing: An Experimental Approach (1997)

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.

She has also been the co-editor-in-chief of Punishment & Society since 2015.[2] An expert on drug laws in the United States, she is the author of the 2016 book Hard Bargains: The Coercive Power of Drug Laws in Federal Court, which discusses the use of drug laws by federal prosecutors to coerce defendants into taking plea bargains.[3][4][5]

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  1. ^ "Mona Lynch receives NSF grant". University of California, Irvine (Press release). 2016-08-25. Retrieved 2018-01-20.
  2. ^ "Mona Lynch CV" (PDF).
  3. ^ "The feds had been moving away from mass incarceration for years. Then Jeff Sessions came along". Mother Jones. 2017-05-19. Retrieved 2018-01-20.
  4. ^ Mock, Brentin (2017-05-12). "The 5 Scariest Things About Jeff Sessions's Drug Sentencing Memo". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2018-01-20.
  5. ^ Lantigua-Williams, Juleyka (2016-11-26). "Declaring Addiction a Health Crisis Could Change Criminal Justice". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2018-01-20.
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