Kyla Bavin

• Contemporary Technologies (Social Media, Internet, AI)
• The Harms of the Powerful
• Activism and Protest Movements
• Convergence of Cultural Criminology and Ultra-Realist Criminology
• Subcultures
• Auto-Ethnography
• Creative Research Methods

• BA Hons Sociology, Crime and Deviance, - The University of Staffordshire

• PhD Sociology – The University of Staffordshire

• PGCHPE, - The University of Staffordshire

• FHEA

• SOC3000 Criminology and Sociology in Practice
• CRI4045 Key Debates in Criminological Theory
• CRI5088 Understanding Crime and Criminal Behaviour
• CRI6112 Harms of the Powerful
• SOC3002 Skills for the Social Scientist

• Subcultures and Deviant Behaviours
• Social Media, AI and New Technologies
• Power Structures
• Violence

Kyla is currently working on a book and various other book chapters with other academics from BCU and Staffordshire University. These contributions encompass a range of criminological subjects including, but not exclusive of Kyla’s personal areas of interest.

• Hart, M., Bavin, K. & Lynes, A. (2025). Artificial Intelligence, Capitalism, and the Logic of Harm: Toward a Critical Criminology of AI. Critical Criminology, pp.1–20.
• Bavin, K. (2025) ‘Working for Nothing: The exploitation of postgraduate students’ in: Jones, S., Azad, M., Miles, L., and Lynes, A. (eds) Embracing the Unknown. Experiences of Studying for a PhD in the Social Sciences. Bristol: Policy Press.
• Bavin, K. (2025) ‘Worldwide, the increasing use of militarised policing has been employed against protestors’ in Lamb, J., Hart, M., Treadwell, J., Lynes, A., & Kelly, C. (eds) 50 Facts Everyone Should Know About The Police Bristol: Policy Press.
• Bavin, K., Hart, M., Lynes, A., and Treadwell, J. (2024) ‘AI and the economic divide: From sci-fi fears to corporate control’, Transforming Society. Policy Press, 28 November. Available at: https://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2024/11/28/ai-and-the-economic-divide-from-sci-fi-fears-to-corporate-control/
• Bahadur Lamb, J., Treadwell, J., Howe, N., Berry, G., Plimley, S. and Bavin, K. (2024). ‘Everything seems to be pushed onto the businesses’: stakeholder perceptions of the policing of business crime in Staffordshire, United Kingdom. Policing and Society, 34(10), pp.1044-1055.
• Lynes, A., Treadwell, J. and Bavin, K. (2024). Crimes of the Powerful and the Contemporary Condition: The Democratic Republic of Capitalism. Bristol: Policy Press.
• Bavin, K. and Treadwell, J. (2023) “The Souks: Tunis Tunisia,” in Lynes, A., Kelly, C., and Treadwell, J. (eds) 50 Dark Destinations: A Criminological Analysis of Contemporary Tourism. London: Policy Press.
• Bavin, K. and Treadwell, J. (2022) “Tattooing and Body Modification,” in Atkinson, R. and Ayres, T. (eds) Shades of Deviance: A Primer on Crime, Deviance and Social Harm. London: Routledge.