Mona Lynch
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KnownforSociology of law
Awards2016 Stanton Wheeler Mentorship Award from the Law and Society Association
FieldsCriminology
Sociology
Sociology
Mona Lynch | |
|---|---|
| Education | University of California, Santa Cruz Stanford University |
| Known for | Sociology of law |
| Awards | 2016 Stanton Wheeler Mentorship Award from the Law and Society Association |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Criminology Sociology |
| Institutions | University of California, Irvine |
| Patrons | National Science Foundation[1] |
| Thesis | Defendant/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]
