Theo is a criminologist whose research and writing addresses the interrelationships between urban space, lawbreaking and social control. To date his research has focused on graffiti writing, shoplifting, and “urban exploration” (recreational trespass). He has used a range of research methods, including ethnography, interviews and photography in order to understand the motivations behind, meanings of and responses to deviant, criminal and subcultural practices. Theo joined Goldsmiths in May 2018.
Teaching
Theo convenes the third year core module, Contemporary Issues in Criminology and the third year optional module, Crime, Control and the City. He teaches on a number of undergraduate and postgraduate modules.
Kindynis, T. 2019. Urban exploration as deviant leisure. In: Thomas Raymen and Oliver Smith, eds. Deviant Leisure: Criminological Perspectives on Leisure and Harm. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 379-401. ISBN 9783030177355
Hayward, Keith and Kindynis, T. 2013. The crime-consumerism nexus. In: Jeffrey Ian Ross, ed. Encyclopaedia of Street Crime in America. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, pp. 123-125. ISBN 9781412999571
Theo is keen to supervise PhD students interested in cultural criminology; urban space; deviant and criminal subcultures; critical perspectives on policing; and especially any projects employing ethnographic or qualitative approaches.
