Adam George Thomas Lynes
Associate Professor in Criminology
School of Social Sciences
- Email:
- Adam.lynes@bcu.ac.uk
- Phone:
- 0121 331 5529
Dr Adam Lynes is an Associate Professor in Criminology at Birmingham City University, where he has taught since 2012, covering topics such as criminological theory, homicide, crime online and transnational organised and corporate crime.
Dr Lynes has published research on such areas as serial murder, family annihilation and organised crime. He has most recently published an edited collection on the phenomenon of dark tourism, and his next research monograph is centred on the crimes of the powerful.
He was also the committee chair for the British Society of Criminology conference, which took place in 2018.
Areas of Expertise
- Violence
- Homicide
- Serial murder
- Criminological theory
- Online crime
- Visual criminology
- Organised crime
- Applied investigative techniques
Qualifications
- 2015. PhD. Birmingham City University (awarded 2015)
- 2013. PGCE. Birmingham City University. Learning & Teaching in Higher Education
- 2012. PGCert. Birmingham City University. Research Methods
- 2011. MA. Birmingham City University. Criminology
- 2010. BA (Hons.) Aberystwyth University. English Literature
Memberships
- Member of the British Society of Criminology
Teaching
- Criminology and all routeways (BA Hons)
- Criminology (MA)
Research
Adam is currently editing his latest book centred on the crimes of the powerful, along with an edited collection concerning the police and another collection focused on the experiences and challenges of completing a PhD in the Social Sciences.
Adam is also further developing his initial research on the “dark flaneur” in order to provide fresh theoretical understandings of the phenomenon of serial murder. Adam, along with a number of other colleagues, is also currently researching the underacknowledged importance of female drug lords, or “Queenpins”, in organised crime, along with a new theoretical paradigm concerning the public’s fascination and consumption of violence in media.
Publications
Books
- Lynes, A., Treadwell, J. & Bavin, K. (2024 forthcoming). Crimes of the Powerful and the Contemporary Condition: The Democratic Republic of Capitalism. Bristol: Policy Press.
- Lynes, A., Kelly, C. & Treadwell, J. (2023). 50 Dark Destinations: Crime, Deviance and Contemporary Tourism. Bristol: Policy Press.
- Lynes, A., Yardley, E. & Ntanos, L. (2021). Making Sense of Homicide: A Student Textbook. Hampshire: Waterside Press.
- Kelly, C., Lynes, A. & Hoffin, K. (2020). Next-Gen Deviance: Reorienting the Debate of Video Games, Crime and Deviance. Bingley: Emerald Publishers ltd. * Funded by Knowledge Unlatched Funding [*Open Access]
- Lynes, A. & Treadwell, J. (2019) 50 Facts about Crime that everybody should know in Britain, Bristol: Policy Press
- Lynes, A. (2017) The Road to Murder: why Driving is the Occupation of Choice for British Serial Killers, Hampshire: Waterside Press
- Wilson, D. Yardley, E. & Lynes, A. (2015) Serial Killers and the Phenomenon of Serial Murder: A Student Textbook, Hampshire: Waterside Press
Chapters
- Kelly, C., Lynes, A. & Dean-Hart, M. (2022). 'Graze culture’ and Serial Murder: Brushing Up Against 'familiar monsters' in the Wake of 9/11' in C. O'Callaghan & S. Fanning (eds.) Serial Killers on Screen. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Lynes, A. & Kelly, C. (2022). ‘Videogames’, in A. Atkinson & T. Ayres (Eds.) Shades of Deviance: Volume Two, London: Routledge. .
- Lynes, A., Kelly, C. & Treadwell, J. (2022). 'Introduction’ In A. Lynes, C. Kelly & J. Treadwell (eds.) 50 Dark Destinations: A Criminological Guide of the Criminal and Deviant, Bristol: Policy Press. https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/50-dark-destinations
- Lynes, A. (2022). 'Amazon Warehouse Tours' In A. Lynes, C. Kelly & J. Treadwell (eds.) 50 Dark Destinations: Crime, Deviance and Contemporary Tourism, Bristol: Policy Press. https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/50-dark-destinations
- Lynes, A. (2022). ‘Conclusion’ In A. Lynes, C. Kelly & J. Treadwell (eds.) 50 Dark Destinations: Crime, Deviance and Contemporary Tourism Bristol: Policy Press.
- Lynes, A. (2021). ‘Chapter One: What is Homicide?’ in A. Lynes, E. Yardley, L. Ntanos & R. Winch (eds.) Making sense of Homicide: A Student Textbook. Winchester: Waterside Press, pp. 15-38.
- Lynes, A. (2021). ‘Chapter Six: Genocide’ in A. Lynes, E. Yardley, L. Ntanos & R. Winch (eds.) Making sense of Homicide: A Student Textbook. Winchester: Waterside Press, pp. 125-144.
- Lynes, A. (2021). ‘Chapter Seven: Death at the Hands of the State’, in A. Lynes, E. Yardley, L. Ntanos & R. Winch (eds.) Making sense of Homicide: A Student Textbook. Winchester: Waterside Press, pp. 145-177.
- Lynes, A. (2021). ‘Chapter Eight: Business of Homicide’, in A. Lynes, E. Yardley, L. Ntanos & R. Winch (eds.) Making sense of Homicide: A Student Textbook. Winchester: Waterside Press, pp. 178-204.
- Lynes, A. (2021). ‘Chapter Ten: Conclusion’, in A. Lynes, E. Yardley, L. Ntanos & R. Winch (eds.) Making sense of Homicide: A Student Textbook. Winchester: Waterside Press, pp. 265-273.
- Kelly, C., Lynes, A. & Hoffin, K. (2020). "Introduction: Reorientating the Debate", in C. Kelly, A. Lynes & K. Hoffin, K. (Ed.) Video Games Crime and Next-Gen Deviance, Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 1-21.
- Kelly, C. & Lynes, A. (2020). ‘The Democratisation of White-collar Criminality in Video Games’, in C. Kelly, A. Lynes & K. Hoffin, K. (Ed.) Video Games Crime and Next-Gen Deviance, Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 113-129.
- Kelly, C., Lynes, A. & Hoffin, K. (2020). ‘Conclusion’, in C. Kelly, A. Lynes & K. Hoffin, K. (Ed.) Video Games Crime and Next-Gen Deviance, Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 201-208.
- Lynes, A. & Treadwell, J. (2019). ‘Introduction’, in A. Lynes & J. Treadwell (Eds.) 50 Facts about Crime that Everybody Should Know in Britain, Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 1-11.
- Lynes, A. (2019). ‘There are currently some 11,000 offenders subject to "tagging" on any day in England and Wales, and the UK is one of Europe's keenest adopters of electronic monitoring of offenders', in A. Lynes & J. Treadwell (Eds.) 50 Facts about Crime that Everybody Should Know in Britain, Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 268-273.
- Lynes, A. (2015). ‘Serial Murder and Occupational Choice’, in D. Wilson, E. Yardley & A. Lynes (Eds.) Serial Killers and the Phenomenon of Serial Murder: A Student Textbook, Winchester: Waterside Press, pp. 111-131.
- Lynes, A. (2015). ‘Case Study: Peter Sutcliffe’, in D. Wilson, E. Yardley & A. Lynes (Eds.) Serial Killers and the Phenomenon of Serial Murder: A Student Textbook, Winchester: Waterside Press, pp.131-149.
Articles
- Lynes, A. & Wragg, E. (2023). ‘“Smile for the Camera”: Online Warehouse Tours as a Form of Dark Tourism within the Era of Late Capitalism’, Tourism & Hospitality Research DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/14673584231173
- Kelly, C. & Lynes, A. (2023). ‘Grand Theft Heutagogy: A reflection on video games as a tool of public criminology in the lecture theatre’, Journal of Criminal Justice Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/10511253.2022.2154375
- Lynes, A., Kelly, C., Kelly, E. (2020). ‘THUG LIFE: Drill music as a periscope into urban violence in the consumer age’, The British Journal of Criminology, 60 (5): 1201–1219. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azaa011
- Lynes A, Kelly C, Uppal PKS. (2019). ‘Benjamin’s ‘Flâneur’ and serial murder: An ultra-realist literary case study of Levi Bellfield’, Crime, Media, Culture, 15 (3):523-543. https://doi.org/10.1177/17416590188159
- Rahman, M. & Lynes, A. (2018) ‘Ride to Die: Understanding Masculine Honour and Collective Identity in the Motorcycle Underworld’ Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp.238-252
- Lynes, A. Kelly, C. & Uppal, P. (2018) ‘The Dark Flâneur: A Criminological Application of Benjamin’s Flâneur to Serial Murder’, Crime, Media Culture, [online first] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1741659018815934
- Yardley, E., Lynes, A., Wilson, D. (2016) ‘What’s the deal with “websleuthing”? News media representations of amateur detectives in networked spaces’ Crime Media Culture, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 81–109
- Barlow, C. & Lynes, A. (2015) ‘(The Good), The Bad and The Ugly: The Visual Construction of Female Child Sex-offenders’, Journalism and Mass Communication, Vol. 5, No. 9, 480 – 494
- Lynes, A. & Wilson (2015) ‘Driven to Kill: British Serial Killers and their Occupations’, The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, Vol. 54, No. 5, pp. 413 - 433
- Lynes, A. & Wilson, D. (2015). ‘Driving, Pseudo-Reality and the BTK: A Case Study’, Journal of Forensic Psychology, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 267 – 284
- Yardley, E., Wilson, D. & Lynes, A. (2014) 'A Taxonomy of Male British Family Annihilators, 1980 - 2012', The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, Vol. 53, No. 2, pp. 117 – 140
- Lynes, A., Wilson, D. & Jackson, C. (2012) 'Zola and the Serial Killer: Robert Black and La Bete Humaine', International Journal of Criminology and Sociology, Vol. 1. pp. 69 - 80
Media Work
Adam has done extensive media work for a variety of mediums including live radio and news; article contributions for newspapers including the Times along with expert contributions to new stories. He has also took part in a number of television documentaries.
Work With Industry
Adam has worked, due to his media contributions on the “Croydon Cat Ripper” story in a variety of newspapers, with cat protection agencies on their campaign to implement stricter air gun control measures
Links and Social Media
Twitter - @Lynesey89