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Mona Lynch

@monalynch.bsky.social

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Professor of Criminology, Law & Society, UC Irvine

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Mona Lynch @monalynch.bsky.social · 1d

Rocky getting Garda love at the No Kings protest, Dublin

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Mona Lynch @monalynch.bsky.social · 1d

No Kings@US embassy, Dublin, Ireland

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Mona Lynch @monalynch.bsky.social · May 11

You’re leaving LA Times?!?😟

Mona Lynch @monalynch.bsky.social · May 5

Just a passing reference to Pierre Janet and his development of the concept in Scull’s Intro to Psychiatry & Its Discontents. Nothing in Desperate Remedies.

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Mona Lynch @monalynch.bsky.social · May 4

Completely!!

Mona Lynch @monalynch.bsky.social · May 4

The best critical historian of psychiatry in my view is Andrew Scull. I’ll check my copies of his book to see if he had written anything on this when I get home. You write about some of my favorite topics: informants, empathy, and now history of psych. sciences!

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Mona Lynch @monalynch.bsky.social · May 4

Here’s a brief psychiatric overview: www.researchgate.net/profile/Petr...

www.researchgate.net

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Mona Lynch @monalynch.bsky.social · Apr 25

Not arrested in court. Indicted a year after the incident by MA US Attorney’s office, so booked by US Marshall’s and released after initial appearance: www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

US judge charged with aiding undocumented immigrant in escape - BBC News

A US judge and a court officer are accused of assisting an undocumented immigrant in evading arrest.

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Mona Lynch @monalynch.bsky.social · Apr 25

This also happened in Trump’s 1st term. A Newton, MA judge & her court officer were charged federally in 2019 with obstruction of justice for allegedly helping a defendant evade ICE. Charges were dropped in late 2022.

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Mona Lynch @monalynch.bsky.social · Mar 30

nyupress.org/978147980770...

Snitching

Reveals the secretive, inaccurate, and often violent ways that the American criminal system really worksCurtis Flowers spent twenty-three years on death row ...

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Mona Lynch @monalynch.bsky.social · Jan 29

Whose library shelves will be lined with alternating copies of Mein Kampf and Art of the Deal?

Mona Lynch @monalynch.bsky.social · Dec 15

And I now see you posted a bunny vid!

Mona Lynch @monalynch.bsky.social · Dec 15

Not a bot! Loved SDF and your old bunny posts on twitter.

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Mona Lynch @monalynch.bsky.social · Dec 4

Can’t wait!

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Mona Lynch @monalynch.bsky.social · Dec 4

…and weakness dressed up as manliness.

Mona Lynch @monalynch.bsky.social · Dec 4

Such an amazing book that continues to shape how I think about the day-to-day operations of the criminal legal system.

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Mona Lynch @monalynch.bsky.social · Dec 4

Rocky knows where the good food comes from.

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Mona Lynch @monalynch.bsky.social · Nov 25

😂

Mona Lynch @monalynch.bsky.social · Nov 25

Gross. Should be “crossing the thin blue line,” except when protecting his beloved Banditos LASD gang.