Brown University Working Group on China: Jianhong Liu

Jianhong Liu's interest in China is primarily in the area of crime and criminal justice. He received his PhD in Sociology from SUNY Albany. His first work on crime in China (co-authored with Allen Liska and Steven F. Messner) was published in 1997, and examined the chronic offenders in China . He is currently on the editorial board of several international journals. He has guest edited Special Issues of the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology and the Australian and New Zealand of Journal of Criminology focusing on crime and criminal justice topics in China . He holds appointments as Guest Professor, Fellow, and Associate Fellow at several major Chinese Universities. He has been interviewed by Newsweek and Voice of America on topics of crime and criminal justice in China . He is currently working with Steven F. Messner and Lening Zhang on their NSF funded project “Criminal Victimization in Contemporary Urban China: A multi-level Analysis of Survey Data for the City of Tianjin ”.

Publications on China:

Articles

Forthcoming  Lening Zhang and Jianhong Liu. “ China Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Law: The Law and the Philosophy.” under review of International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology

Forthcoming  Hong Lu, Jianhong Liu, and Alicia Boots. “Female Criminal Victimization and Criminal Justice Response in China .” British Journal of Criminology

Forthcoming  Jianhong Liu. “Modernization Theory and Crime Patterns in China .” Journal of Criminal Justice

2005  Jianhong Liu. “Crime Patterns during the Market Transition in China .” British Journal of Criminology 45:613-633.

2005  Jianhong Liu. “Predicting recidivism in a communitarian society: China .” International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 49:392-409.

2004  Jianhong Liu. “ Social Transition and Crime in China : an Economic Motivation Thesis ” Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology Volume 37, supplement issue pp.122-138.

2004  Roderic Broadhurst and Jianhong Liu. “Introduction: Crime, Law, and Criminological Research in a Transitional China ” Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology Volume 37, supplement issue pp.1-12.

2004  Jianhong Liu. “Subcultural Values, Crime, and Negative Social Capital for Chinese Offenders.” International Criminal Justice Review Vol 14:49-68.

2004  Lening Zhang and Jianhong Liu. “Official status and the Swiftness of Criminal Arrest: A Chinese Case of the Impact of Social Position on Criminal Justice.” Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management 27:82-96.

2000  Lening Zhang , Allen Liska, Steven F. Messner , Marvin Krohn, Jianhong Liu, and Denke Zhou “Organization of Ownership and Workplace Theft in China .” International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 44 (October):581-592.

1999  Jianhong Liu. “Social Capital and Covariates of Reoffending Risk in the Chinese Context.” International Criminal Justice Review 9:39-55.

1998  Jianhong Liu, Allen Liska, Steven F. Messner , Marvin Krohn, Lening Zhang , and Denke Zhou. “Status, Power, and Sentence in China .” Justice Quarterly 15 (June):289-300.

1997  Jianhong Liu, Steven F. Messner, and Allen Liska. “Chronic Offenders in China .” International Criminal Justice Review 7:31-45.

1996  Author: Lening Zhang , Denke Zhou, Steven F. Messner , Allen Liska, Marvin Krohn, Jianhong Liu, and Zhou Lu “Strategies of Community Crime Prevention in a Communitarian Society: 'Bang-Jiao' and 'Tiao-Jie' in the people's Republic of China.” Justice Quarterly 13 (June):199-222.

Book and Book Chapters

Forthcoming  Steven F. Messner, Jianhong Liu, and Susanne Karstedt. “Economic Reform and Crime in Contemporary China: An Assessment of Criminological Paradigms” (co-author: Steve F. Messner) in Urban China in Transition editor: John Logan . Malden , MA :Blackwell Publisher.

2005  Jianhong Liu. “Crime and Criminal Justice in China .” Encyclopedia of Criminology Volume I, pp172-176, edited by Richard A. Wright. New York , Routledge Reference, Taylor & Francis Publishing.

2004  Jianhong Liu. “Patterns of Economically Motivated Crimes in China .” In Crime and its Control in the People's Republic of China : Symposia Proceedings of the University of Hong Kong Centre for Criminology . Pp107-126. Edited by Roderic G. Broadhurst. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University

2001  Jianhong Liu, Lening Zhang, and Steven F. Messner. (eds.). Crime and Social Control in a Changing China . Westport , CT : Greenwood Publishing Group Inc.

2001  Jianhong Liu, Lening Zhang , and Steven F. Messner . “Introduction - Impact of Market Transition: Changing Crime and Social Control in China.” in Crime and Social Control in a Changing China , edited by Jianhong Liu, Lening Zhang , and Steven F. Messner . Westport , CT : Greenwood Publishing Group Inc.

2001  Jianhong Liu and Steven F. Messner . “Modernization and Crime trend in China 's Reform Era.” in Crime and Social Control in a Changing China , edited by Jianhong Liu, Lening Zhang , and Steven F. Messner . Westport , CT : Greenwood Publishing Group Inc.

Guest Editing Special Journal Issues

Forthcoming  Jianhong Liu. (eds.) “ Crime and Criminal Justice in China ” A special issue of International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. New Berry Park , CA : Sage Publications.

2004  Roderic Broadhurst and Jianhong Liu. (eds.) “ Crime, Law, and Criminology in China ” A special issue of Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology ” Bowen Hills , Australia : Australian Academic Press.