Dr Adam Lynes

• Violence
• Homicide
• Serial murder 
• Criminological theory
• Online crime
• Visual criminology
• Organised crime
• Applied investigative techniques 

• 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 

• Member of the British Society of Criminology 

Course Leader: MA Criminology

Post Graduate Teaching:

• Crime Online and Public Criminology
• Homicide and Violent Organised Crime

Under Graduate Teaching:

• Homicide and Multiple Homicide: Criminological Understandings of Killing
• Transnational Organised and Corporate Crime
• Dark Leisure

Dr Adam Lynes is currently involved in a number of ongoing research projects. With regard to research articles, he is currently examining the supposed links between drill music and the rise in knife crime, along with further developing his new theoretical framework on serial murder (the Dark Flâneur) which seeks to re-orientate academic discussions on this form of offending.

With regard to book projects, he is a co-editor and contributor of a new collection examining various forms of deviant and criminal behavior within videogames (, published through Emerald Points). He is also an editor and contributor towards a brand new student textbook titled , due to be published by Waterside Press. Lastly, Dr Lynes is currently working on a follow up to , focusing this time on policing and published through Bristol Policy Press.  

Name of PhD student: Liam Brolan

Title of PhD: Making sense of Holiday Homicide: A study of the Nature, Extent and law Enforcement Implications of Britons killed Abroad

Books

• Lynes, A., Yardley, L., & Ntanos, L. (2019 forthcoming), Homicide and Multiple Homicide: Criminological Understandings of Killing, Hampshire: Waterside Press
• Kelly, C. Lynes, A. & Hoffin, K. (2019 forthcoming) Next-Gen Deviance: Reorienting the Debate of Video Games, Crime and Deviance, Bingley: Emerald Publishers ltd.
• 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

Articles

• 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

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. 

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 

Twitter - @Lynesey89