James Lynch

James Patrick Lynch, an American criminologist born 1949 in Hartford, Connecticut, is a professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland. He joined American University's Department of Justice, Law, and Society in 1986, becoming department chair in 2003, moved to John Jay College of Criminal Justice in 2005, and in 2010 was confirmed by the United States Senate as director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, serving until 2013 when he joined the University of Maryland; he served as president of the American Society of Criminology in 2017. His research centers on criminal victimization, crime statistics and social control, including work redesigning the National Crime Survey between 1980 and 1985 and research on the Uniform Crime Reports. He earned his bachelor's degree in sociology from Wesleyan University in 1971 and both a master's and doctoral degree in sociology from the University of Chicago in 1975 and 1983. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/