Comparative Criminology in Asia

Professor Jianhong Liu is a Professor at University of Macau. He is the winner of 2016 American Society of Criminology’s “Freda Adler Distinguished Scholar Award”. Prof Liu is the author, editor-in-chief, or co-editor of about 30 books. He has published 100 papers including journal articles and book chapters. He is currently the elected President of the Scientific Commission of the International Society for Criminology (since 2014), the chairman of the General Assembly of the Asian Criminological Society (2016-), and a member of the steering committee of Campbell Collaboration’s Crime and Justice Group (since 2009). Professor Liu was the Founding President of Asian Criminological Society (from 2009 to 2015). He is also the editor-in-chief of the Asian Journal of Criminology< (Springer Publishing), the editor of “Springer Series on Asian Criminology & Criminal Justice Research”, and a member of the editorial boards of more than 20 international academic journals, including British Journal of Criminology.Max Travers is a senior lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania. Max qualified as a solicitor in the United Kingdom in 1988, before completing a PhD in sociology at the University of Manchester. He lectured in sociology and criminology at the University of Plymouth, and Buckinghamshire New University, before moving to the University of Tasmania in 2003. His doctoral research, published as The Reality of Law (1997), was an ethnomethodological investigation into the practical work of defence lawyers. He has published studies about the work of judicial officers in immigration appeals tribunals and children’s courts, and is currently researching bail decision making. He has written textbooks on qualitative research methods and sociology of law, and a monograph about the rise of quality assurance as a new form of regulation.Lennon Y.C. Chang is a lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University. Dr. Chang is interested in researching crime and governance of cyberspace – cybercrime, cyber terrorism and cyber warfare. He is particularly interested in the regulation and governance of cyberspace in the Asia-Pacific region. His book Cybercrime in the Greater China Region: Regulatory Responses and Crime Prevention (Edward Elgar, 2012) is about the nature and range of responses to cybercrime between China and Taiwan. His professional interest in China continues and he is currently researching on-line vigilantism in China. He was also undertaking research into cybercrime and cyber-deviance among Hong Kong juveniles. Dr. Chang was awarded his PhD by the Australian National University. He has a Masters in Criminology and Bachelor in Law degrees from National Taipei University, Taiwan.

• 1. Introduction.- Part I - Why compare? Asian countries, the West and comparative criminology.- Introduction to Part I.- 2. The new Asian paradigm: A relational approach.- 3. Asian values, crime and social change.- 4. Comparative empirical co-ordinates and the dynamics of criminal justice in China and the West.- 5. Asian criminology and southern epistemologies.- Part II – Quantitative comparisons.- Introduction to Part II.- 6. When West meets East: Generalizing theory and expanding the conceptual toolkit of criminology.- 7. Korean criminology: Juvenile delinquency and self-control theory.- Part III – Interpretive questions.- Introduction to Part III.- 8. Lost in translation: Doing (and not doing) ethnographic research in village India.- 9. Young offenders’ views of desistance in Japan: A comparison with Scotland.- Part IV – Making comparisons.- Introduction to Part IV.- 10. Cybercrime and cyber security in ASEAN.- 11.Restorative justice: East and West.- 12. Singapore and Thailand: Explaining differences in death penalty clemency.- 13. Reflecting on comparison: A view from Asia.