His fields of specialization include social organizations, communities and crime, and international comparisons of crime and justice-system responses. He has served on several advisory panels for the National Institute of Justice, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and the American Statistical Association, and he was an editor of the Public Policy Series published by Georgetown University Press. Dr. Lynch's many publications cover a range of criminal justice issues and include "The Decomposition and Graphical Analysis of Crime and Sanctions Data," The Journal of Quantitative Criminology (forthcoming), and "The Use of Coercive Social Control and Changes in the Race and Class Composition of U.S. Prison Populations" (with William J. Sabol), The Howard Journal (forthcoming).