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Lynn Addington

Associate Professor
SPA: Justice, Law & Society

  • Additional Positions at AU

    Faculty Affiliate, Center for Israel Studies
  • Professor Addington’s research interests include the nature of violent crime and its impact on victims (especially students and juveniles), measurement of crime, and utilization of national crime statistics. Her recent publications have addressed the quality of crime data, school violence, fear of victimization, and the long-term effects of Columbine. She is the co-editor of a volume of original research entitled Understanding Crime Statistics: Revisiting the Divergence of the NCVS and UCR and the lead author of Are America's Schools Safe? Students Speak Out. Her research has been funded by the American Educational Research Association, the American Statistical Association, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and the National Institute of Justice. Professor Addington has been a consultant on crime surveys for the Bureau of the Census and the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics. She currently sits on the editorial board of Homicide Studies. Prior to attending graduate school, Professor Addington practiced law for four years during which time she clerked for a federal district court judge and worked as a civil litigator.
  • Degrees

    Ph.D. State University of New York, Albany
    M.A. State University of New York, Albany
    J.D. University of Pennsylvania
    B.S. Northwestern University
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Teaching

  • Fall 2009

    • HNRS-302 Honors Collqm in Social Sc: The Death of Privacy?
    • Description
  • Spring 2010

AU Expert

Area of Expertise: Criminal violence; school crime; fear of victimization; violent victimization issues; national crime statistics, including Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR) and National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) nbsp;

Additional Information: Lynn A. Addington is the coeditor Understanding Crime Statistics: Revisiting the Divergence of the NCVS and UCR, a text of compiled original research (Cambridge University Press, 2007). She has published on issues concerning school violence and school shootings as well as homicide victimization. Addington is also the lead author ofAre America's Schools Safe? Students Speak Out (U.S. Department of Education, 2002). She is the recipient of more than $100,000 in external grant money from organizations that include the American Educational Research Association, the American Statistical Association, the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the National Institute of Justice.

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