Mona Lynch

{{Short description|American criminologist}}

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| nationality = American

| fields = Criminology
Sociology

| workplaces = University of California, Irvine

| patrons = National Science Foundation{{Cite press release |title=Mona Lynch receives NSF grant |url=https://cls.soceco.uci.edu/news/mona-lynch-receives-nsf-grant|date=2016-08-25 |language=en |access-date=2018-01-20 |website=University of California, Irvine }}

| education = University of California, Santa Cruz
Stanford University

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| thesis_title = Defendant/Victim Race, Juror Comprehension, and Capital Sentencing: An Experimental Approach

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| thesis_year = 1997

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| known_for = Sociology of law

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| awards = 2016 Stanton Wheeler Mentorship Award from the Law and Society Association

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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.{{Cite web |url=http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/monalynch/files/2016/08/mona_lynch_cv_5-16_.pdf |title=Mona Lynch CV}} 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.{{Cite web |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/05/jeff-sessions-charging-gudelines/ |title=The feds had been moving away from mass incarceration for years. Then Jeff Sessions came along. |date=2017-05-19 |website=Mother Jones |language=en-US |access-date=2018-01-20}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/05/the-5-scariest-things-about-jeff-sessionss-new-war-on-drugs/526593/ |title=The 5 Scariest Things About Jeff Sessions's Drug Sentencing Memo |last=Mock |first=Brentin |date=2017-05-12 |newspaper=Bloomberg |language=en-US |access-date=2018-01-20}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/addiction-health-crisis-criminal-justice/508409/ |title=Declaring Addiction a Health Crisis Could Change Criminal Justice |last=Lantigua-Williams |first=Juleyka |date=2016-11-26 |website=The Atlantic |language=en-US |access-date=2018-01-20}}