Lynn Jones
Associate Professor
Northern Arizona University
Criminology Criminal Justice
Phone: 928-523-6701
Lynn.Jones@nau.edu
Office hours: Tu 11 a.m.-12 noon; or by appointment
Office address: SBS Building, Room 311
Education
PhD Sociology, University of Arizona (1999)
Professional interests
- cause lawyering
- law and social movements/legal mobilization
- law and society
- women, gender and crime
- sexual victimization
- victim advocacy and victim services
Academic interests and affiliations
My research emphasizes the legal profession and public interest law, social movements and activism, and crime victim services. I am currently engaged in the study of law and social movements, with particular emphasis on how cause lawyers negotiate their professional and activist identities and frame movement strategies.
Other current projects include the study of campus sexual assault, minority crime victims, and barriers to campus victim services.
Over the last five years, I have worked closely with the Arizona Coalition for Victim Services to create, administer, and evaluate the Arizona Victim Assistance Academy. This Academy is a 40-hour training of victim advocates that aims to standardize and improve service delivery to the diverse crime victims in Arizona, with particular emphasis on overcoming the geographic and cultural barriers unique to this state.
Prior to my work with this project in Arizona, I gained additional experience as co-principal investigator of the Pennsylvania Victim Assistance Academy. Both projects were initially funded through the Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime.
Recent publications and projects
Barclay, Scott, Lynn C. Jones and Anna-Maria Marshall. 2011. "Two Spinning Wheels: Studying Law and Social Movements." Studies in Law, Politics, and Society (Special Issues: Social Movements/Legal Possibilities) 54: 1-16.