Michael A Long

Biographic Data

ID3674089
NAMEMichael A Long
GIVEN NAMESMichael A
FAMILY NAMELong
SIGNATURELONG M A
AFFILIATIONSOklahoma State University
ORCID0000-0002-9283-3741
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS31
TOTAL CITATIONS129
AUTHOR COUNT31
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX8

  • Neoliberalism and Insecurity in Advanced Capitalism

    Michael A Long, Andrew S Fullerton et al.BOOKNeoliberalism and Insecurity in…2025

    This book examines the relationship between neoliberalism and insecurity, beginning with the post‐World War II period and continuing up through the present. Neoliberalism – the dominant political economic perspective that elevates competition above all else at both the structural and individual levels – has increased the amount of insecurity (e.g., food, energy, job) across the world. It provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of how and wh…

  • Letter from the New Editorial Team

    Open AccessAndrew S Fullerton, Michael A Long et al.ARTICLESocial Problems2025

  • Neoliberalism, World-System Position, and Biodiversity Loss

    Michael A Long, M Lynch et al.ARTICLESociology of Development2024

    Several studies provide evidence that social, economic, political, and conservation-related factors impact cross-national biodiversity loss. One theoretical argument concerning biodiversity loss that has not been directly assessed involves the relationship between species loss and neoliberalism. Generally, neoliberalism promotes free markets. This has become a dominant philosophy across nations (though the strength of neoliberalism varies cross-n…

  • Editors' Farewell

    Michael A Long, Andrew S FullertonARTICLESociological Quarterly2024References: 1

    It has been our pleasure editing The Sociological Quarterly (TSQ) over the last four years. Editing a journal takes a team of people, of which the Editors are only part. Therefore, we would like to

  • The Climate Change-Temperature-Crime Hypothesis: Evidence from a Sample of 15 Large US Cities, 2002 to 2015

    Open AccessM Lynch, Paul B Stretesky et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Offender…2022

    Drawing on prior studies, green criminologists have hypothesized that climate change will both raise the mean temperature and the level of crime. We call this the “climate change-temperature-crime hypothesis” (“CC-T-C”). This hypothesis is an extension of research performed on temperature and crime at the individual level. Other research explores this relationship by testing for the relationship between seasonality and crime within a given period…

  • Mental Well-Being in UK Higher Education During Covid-19: Do Students Trust Universities and the Government

    Open AccessMargaret Anne Defeyter, Paul B Stretesky et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2021

    This paper draws upon the concept of recreancy to examine the mental well-being of university students during the Covid-19 pandemic. Briefly, recreancy is loss of societal trust that results when institutional actors can no longer be counted on to perform their responsibilities. Our study of mental well-being and recreancy focuses on the role of universities and government regulators within the education sector. We surveyed 600 UK students attend…

  • Letter from the New Editorial Team

    Michael A Long, Andrew S Fullerton et al.ARTICLESociological Quarterly2021Cited by: 1

  • Climate Change, Temperature, and Homicide: A Tale of Two Cities, 1895–2015

    M Lynch, Michael J Lynch et al.ARTICLEWeather, Climate, and Society2020

    It has been argued that the temperature increase caused by anthropogenic climate change will produce a significant increase in violent crime. Support for that prediction is often based on statistical analyses of seasonal temperature and crime data cycles across days, months, and quarters and sometimes on large geographic areas. Within-year temperature changes are very large, however, relative to the 30-yr temperature increases employed to measure…

  • Shale Gas Development and Community Distress: Evidence from England

    Open AccessFeizel Ayitey Aryee, Anna Szolucha et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020

    This research examines psychosocial stress associated with shale gas development through the narratives of residents and the Revised Impact of Event Scale (IES-R). We carried out our research in three of England's communities impacted by shale gas development. To gather data, we conducted qualitative interviews and engaged in participant observation in all three communities and conducted a quantitative survey of residents. From our qualitative in…

  • Holiday Clubs as Community Organizations

    Open AccessPaul B Stretesky, Margaret Anne Defeyter et al.ARTICLEThe Annals of the American…2020Cited by: 2References: 42

    Holiday clubs-publicly or privately operated organizations that provide child care services and healthy food to disadvantaged children in the United Kingdom (UK) when schools are not in session-are increasing in number. We know a good deal about the effectiveness of the clubs in terms of nutrition-related outcomes, but little is known about the anti-poverty resources these holiday clubs may provide. The possibility that club funding may be centra…

  • The Treadmill of Production and the Treadmill of Law: Propositions for Analyzing Law, Ecological Disorganization and Crime

    M Lynch, Michael J Lynch et al.ARTICLECapitalism Nature Socialism2020Cited by: 9References: 28

    Treadmill of production (ToP) arguments have significant implications for the study of environmental crime. A current limitation of those arguments involves their application to environmental law and its enforcement. We argue that a treadmill of law (ToL) shapes and maintains production through lawmaking and enforcement practices, issues that have yet to receive significant attention in the ToP literature. To illustrate the connection between the…

  • Environmental crime prosecutions in Ireland, 2004–2014

    M Lynch, Michael J Lynch et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2019Cited by: 2References: 43

    Despite increased interest in environmental crime and green criminology, few studies address the use of criminal penalties in response to environmental crimes. A handful of published examples employ data from the United States or the Flanders court system, and little is known about how other nations punish environmental violations. Addressing this issue, the current study examined the use of criminal environmental penalties in Ireland from 2004 t…

  • Exploring the Relationship between Neoliberalism and Homicide: A Cross-National Perspective

    Open AccessCraig Mclean, Michael A Long et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Sociology2019Cited by: 11References: 18

    Research has shown that neoliberal economic policies may increase violence. In this study we extend this logic to create a “neoliberalism-homicide hypothesis.” We test this hypothesis using two global measures of neoliberalism (the Economic Freedom of the World Index and the Index of Economic Freedom) and 2014 homicide rates for 142 nations. Regression analysis provides little support for the neoliberalism-homicide hypothesis using the global ind…

  • The Great Recession, the Treadmill of Production and Ecological Disorganization: Did the Recession Decrease Toxic Releases Across US States, 2005–2014

    Open AccessMichael A Long, M Lynch et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2018

  • Situational Crime Prevention and the Ecological Regulation of Green Crime: A Review and Discussion

    Open AccessM Lynch, Michael J Lynch et al.ARTICLEThe Annals of the American…2018Cited by: 2References: 68

    Situational crime prevention theory suggests the need for innovative, non-criminal-justice polices to control crime, but that approach has not been widely employed by criminologists addressing the control of environmental crime. Numerous examples of innovative environmental social control practices can be found outside of the criminological literature; but within criminology, such studies have most often been undertaken by conservation criminolog…

  • Mitigating Litigating: An Examination of Psychosocial Impacts of Compensation Processes Associated with the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

    Open AccessLiesel Ashley Ritchie, Duane A Gill et al.ARTICLERisk Analysis2018Cited by: 13References: 5

    During the past four decades, a number of social science scholars have conceptualized technological disasters as a social problem. More specifically, research in this arena has identified individual and collective stress as a secondary trauma of processes intended to provide compensation and economic relief from disasters in general and, more specifically, technological disasters. Based on data from a 2013 household telephone survey of 1,216 resi…

  • The Neglect of Quantitative Research in Green Criminology and Its Consequences

    Open AccessM Lynch, Michael J Lynch et al.ARTICLECritical Criminology2017Cited by: 12References: 60

  • Does the Modernization of Environmental Enforcement Reduce Toxic Releases? An Examination of Self-policing, Criminal Prosecutions, and Toxic Releases in the United States, 1988-2014

    Paul B Stretesky, M Lynch et al.ARTICLESociological Spectrum2017Cited by: 5References: 45

    According to modernization theory, enforcement schemes that rely on end-of-the-pipe regulation are not as effective at achieving improved environmental performance as market-based approaches that encourage pollution prevention. Consistent with that observation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency transitioned to the use of self-policing to encourage pollution prevention. Other studies note that environmental compliance is significantly affec…

  • The Weak Probability of Punishment for Environmental Offenses and Deterrence of Environmental Offenders: A Discussion Based on Usepa Criminal Cases, 1983–2013

    M Lynch, Michael J Lynch et al.ARTICLEDeviant Behavior2016Cited by: 22References: 48

    Numerous studies observe a decrease in environmental crimes following imposition of fines or penalties potentially due to general and specific deterrent effects. Here we explore whether those deterrent effects appear plausible by estimating the probability of a USEPA criminal case occurring each year between 1983 through 2013. Our analysis shows that there is an extremely low probability of an environmental crime case being prosecuted criminally …

  • Defining Crime: A Critique of the Concept and Its Implication

    Open AccessM Lynch, Michael J Lynch et al.BOOKDefining Crime2015

    Defining Crime explores the limitations of the legal definition of crime, how that politically based definition has shaped criminological research, and why criminologists must redefine crime to includ

  • Environmental justice: A criminological perspective

    Open AccessM Lynch, Michael J Lynch et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2015

    This article examines studies related to environmental justice in the criminological literature and from a criminological perspective. Criminologists have long been concerned with injustices in the criminal justice system related to the enforcement of criminal law. In the 1990s, following the emergence of green criminology, a handful of criminologists have drawn attention to environmental justice as an extension of more traditional criminological…

  • Carbon Crime in the Voluntary Market: An Exploration of Modernization Themes Among a Sample of Criminal and Non-criminal Organizations

    Open AccessRuth E Mckie, Paul B Stretesky et al.ARTICLECritical Criminology2015Cited by: 1References: 34

  • The Treadmill of Crime

    Paul B Stretesky, Michael J Lynch et al.BOOKThe Treadmill of Crime2013

    Drawing on the work of Allan Schnaiberg, this book returns political economy to green criminology and examines how the expansion of capitalism shapes environmental law, crime and justice. The book is organized around crimes of ecological withdrawals and ecological additions. The Treadmill of Crime is written by acclaimed experts on the subject of green criminology and examines issues such as the crime in the energy sector as well as the release o…

  • The Normative Order of Reporting Police Misconduct: Examining the Roles of Offense Seriousness, Legitimacy, and Fairness

    Open AccessMichael A Long, Jennifer E Cro et al.ARTICLESocial Psychology Quarterly2013Cited by: 9References: 32

    Using anonymous surveys of 3,235 officers in 30 police agencies, we tested hypotheses derived from prior policing research, legitimacy theory, and disciplinary fairness literature on the intentions of police officers to report acts of misconduct perpetrated by fellow officers. We examined features of the normative order involving peer reporting of police misconduct at both the individual agency and aggregate police subculture levels. Consistent w…

  • Crime in the Coal Industry: Implications for Green Criminology and Treadmill of Production

    Open AccessMichael A Long, Paul B Stretesky et al.ARTICLEOrganization & Environment2012

    This research examines the connection between political donations, lobbying, levels of production, and state enforcement efforts in the coal industry. The authors draw on treadmill of production theory as developed by Schnaiberg to situate the analysis within green criminology. Specifically, based on treadmill of production theory the authors hypothesize that coal companies are more likely to increase political donations and lobbying efforts prio…