Michael J. Lynch

Michael J. Lynch, Ph.D. is a professor of criminology at the University of South Florida and Associated Faculty in the Patel School of Global Sustainability. He holds Ph.D. (State University of New York at Albany, Criminal Justice), two MA degrees (criminal justice, State University of New York at Albany, and sociology, St. John's University, Queen NY) and a BS in criminal justice (St. John's University). He has been a university professor since 1988. His research has primarily addressed green crime and justice/environmental justice/environmental law and justice issues, applications of radical criminology, included predictions of crime and imprisonment rates, and analyses of racial biases in criminal justice processes. He is identified as the founder of green criminology in 1990 (e.g., Natali, 2013, in N. South and A. Brisman's "Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology"). He has received a Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to critical criminology from the Division on Critical Criminology of the American Society of Criminology (2011), and a Distinguished Alumni Award from the School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany (2015). Lynch is an active graduate mentor and has chaired 45 completed doctoral dissertations and MA theses. In addition to his books, Lynch is the author of more than 110 papers in scholarly journals, and more than 60 book chapters and entries in edited collections.