Michael Lynch
University of South Florida
Faculty Member, Law & Criminology
United States
My co-authors include
Dr John K. Cochran
paul stretesky
My Publications
Environmental crime prosecutions in Ireland, 2004–2014
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
May 2019
The Treadmill of Production and the Treadmill of Law: Propositions for Analyzing Law, E...
Capitalism Nature Socialism
November 2018
Animal abuse registries: expanded interest in animal protection mimics other criminal j...
Contemporary Justice Review
October 2018
Blaming the poor for biodiversity loss: a political economic critique of the study of p...
Journal of Poverty and Social Justice
October 2017
The Neglect of Quantitative Research in Green Criminology and Its Consequences
Critical Criminology
March 2017
Trends in the Formation of Environmental Enforcement International Non-Governmental Org...
Globalizations
November 2016
The Sentencing/Punishment of Federal Environmental/Green Criminal Offenders, 2000–2013
Deviant Behavior
October 2016
Acknowledging Female Victims of Green Crimes: Environmental Exposure of Women to Indust...
Feminist Criminology
October 2016
Court Sentencing Patterns for Environmental Crimes: Is There a “Green” Gap in Punishment?
Journal of Quantitative Criminology
September 2016
A cross-national study of the association between natural resource rents and homicide r...
European Journal of Criminology
August 2016
The Weak Probability of Punishment for Environmental Offenses and Deterrence of Environ...
Deviant Behavior
May 2016
A Marxian Interpretation of the Environmental Kuznets Curve: Global Capitalism and the ...
Capitalism Nature Socialism
May 2016
A Proposal for the Political Economy of Green Criminology: Capitalism and the Case of t...
Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice/La Revue canadienne de criminologi...
April 2016
The Ecological Distribution of Community Advantage and Disadvantage: Power Structures, ...
Critical Criminology
February 2016
A Radical Economic Model of Crime with an Empirical Test in Non-city Zip Codes
Critical Criminology
December 2015
A Macro-Social Exploratory Analysis of the Rate of Interstate Cyber-Victimization
American Journal of Criminal Justice
October 2015
Green Criminology and Social Justice: A Reexamination of the Lynemouth Plant Closing an...
Critical Sociology
August 2015
Environmental justice: a criminological perspective
Environmental Research Letters
August 2015
Ecocities, Crime, and Justice: Ecocity Theory, Social Disorganization, and Green Crimin...
Sociological Spectrum
June 2015
Green Criminology and the Reconceptualization of School Violence: Comparing Green Schoo...
Critical Criminology
May 2015
The classlessness state of criminology and why criminology without class is rather mean...
Crime Law and Social Change
March 2015
Crime as Pollution? Theoretical, Definitional and Policy Concerns with Conceptualizing ...
American Journal of Criminal Justice
March 2015
The Human Consequences of Ecological Violence and Corporate Victimization: Public Secto...
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
February 2015
Death Matters: Victimization by Particle Matter from Coal Fired Power Plants in the US,...
Critical Criminology
January 2015
Let’s Think about Crime
January 2015
Concerning the Definition of Crime
January 2015
What Is Crime?
January 2015
Framing a Definition of Crime
January 2015
Crime and Science
January 2015
Crime and the Individual
January 2015
Defining Crime
January 2015
Exploring Green Criminology
May 2014
Marx, Karl
March 2014
Green and Environmental Criminology
March 2014
Ecological Disorganization, Crime, Green Criminology and Political Economic theory
The British Journal of Criminology
August 2013
The treadmill of crime: political economy and green criminology
August 2013
Political economy and crime: an overview
Journal of Crime and Justice
July 2013
Effect of monetary penalties on environmental crime
Journal of Crime and Justice
July 2013
Reexamining political economy and crime and explaining the crime drop
Journal of Crime and Justice
July 2013
Water monitoring organizations, Environmental Justice, US
Policing An International Journal
March 2013
Green Criminology
November 2012
Density dependence and environmental justice organizations, 1970–2008
The Social Science Journal
September 2012
Coal industry crime, green criminology and the treadmill of production
Organization & Environment
July 2012
The utility of parsimony in explaining crime
American Journal of Criminal Justice
March 2012
Vehcile carbon taxes, criminology, and climate change policy
January 2012
The Relation Between Youth Fear and Avoidance of Crime in School and Academic Experiences
Journal of School Violence
January 2012
Similarities between green criminology and green science: Toward a typology of green cr...
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
November 2011
The Founding of Environmental Justice Organizations Across U.S. Counties during the 199...
Social Problems
August 2011
State correctional policy survey: what state correctional departments say they do
Journal of Crime and Justice
July 2011
Coal Strip Mining, Mountaintop Removal, and the Distribution of Environmental Violation...
Landscape Research
March 2011
Global warming and state-corporate crime: the politicalization of global warming under ...
Crime Law and Social Change
July 2010
RADICAL EXPLANATIONS OF PENAL TRENDS: THE RATE OF SURPLUS VALUE AND THE INCARCERATION R...
Journal of Crime and Justice
January 2010
Does self-policing reduce chemical emissions?
The Social Science Journal
September 2009
A cross-national study of the association between per capita carbon dioxide emissions a...
Social Science Research
March 2009
James Lovelock, The Revenge of Gaia: Earth’s Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity
Critical Criminology
December 2007
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POSTWAR RECONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS AND POLITICAL DONATIONS: THE ...
Sociological Spectrum
May 2007
Campaign Contributions and State-Corporate Crime
Deviant Behavior
July 2006
The Relationship between Lead and Crime
Journal of Health and Social Behavior
June 2004
Determinants of Environmental Law Violation Fines Against Petroleum Refineries: Race, E...
Society & Natural Resources
April 2004
Slippery Business
Journal of Black Studies
January 2004
The Meaning of Green
Theoretical Criminology
May 2003
Environmental Hazards and School Segregation in Hillsborough County, Florida, 1987–1999
Sociological Quarterly
September 2002
The Relationship Between Lead Exposure and Homicide
Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
May 2001
The power of oppression: Understanding the history of criminology as a science of oppre...
Critical Criminology
September 2000
Media Coverage of Chemical Crimes, Hillsborough County, Florida, 1987-97
The British Journal of Criminology
January 2000
Long cycle affects on criminal justice legislation.
Justice Quarterly
June 1999
Popular culture as an ideological mask
Journal of Criminal Justice
July 1998
Macro-level determinants of police growth, Phoenix, Arizona
Justice Quarterly
March 1997
The rate of surplus value and crime. A theoretical and empirical examination of Marxian...
Crime Law and Social Change
March 1994
Reconciling Structural and Subjective Approaches to the Study of Crime
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
November 1990
Cross-Cultural Perceptions of Deviance: The Case of Bhopal
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
February 1989
The extraction of surplus value, crime and punishment: A preliminary examination
December 1988
From feuding to terrorism: the ideology of vengeance
January 1987
Critical Criminology
Environmental Racism
Environmental Criminology
Environmental Crime and Justice
Environmental Toxins Theory
Effect of US EPA Self-Enforcement on Environmental Compliance
Anthropogenic Development Drives Species to Be Endangered
Reflections on green criminology and its boundaries
Green criminology and green victimization
