Kai Lin

Dr. Kai Lin is a Lecturer in Criminology at the Faculty of Design and Society, University of Technology Sydney, where he has been employed since January 2023. He previously held academic positions at California State University (Assistant Professor, 2020-2023), University of Vermont (Lecturer, 2019-2020), and Quinnipiac University (Visiting Assistant Professor, 2018-2019).

• Education: Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Delaware, USA

His research focuses on violence in physical/digital spaces, victimization dynamics, and criminal justice responses. He examines lifestyle exposure theory, routine activity patterns, and social control mechanisms across diverse populations, including Chinese youth, left-behind children in rural China, and sexual minority groups in the US.

The 15 most recent publications analyze topics such as cyber-fraud risk factors, victim-offender overlap in digital crimes, and police responses to domestic violence in China. His work employs multivariate regression, latent class analysis, and cross-national comparisons to inform evidence-based policy development.

Grants include funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2024) and the UTS ECR Research Capabilities Development Initiative (2024). He emphasizes teaching as a transformative process, aiming to help students contextualize abstract concepts through criminal justice and technology-focused courses.