Criminology’s new frontier in China: opportunities, possibilities and challenges

Criminological study on China and in China is not new. The development of Chinese criminology since the beginning of the 20th century has been well noted in the scholarly literature (e.g., [4, 11, 29]). This special issue is an attempt to showcase scholarships that explore the new frontier in crimin...

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Published in:	Crime, law, and social change law, and social change, 2016-12, Vol.66 (5), p.439-446
Main Authors:	He, Ni, Zhuo, Yue
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	20th century China Crime prevention Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law Criminal statistics Criminology Criminology and Criminal Justice Elgar, Edward Law and Criminology Political Science Social Sciences
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Summary:	Criminological study on China and in China is not new. The development of Chinese criminology since the beginning of the 20th century has been well noted in the scholarly literature (e.g., [4, 11, 29]). This special issue is an attempt to showcase scholarships that explore the new frontier in criminological research in China. The contributors of this special issue are mostly Chinese diaspora - a group of U.S. trained criminologists, who took their training to practice by collecting first-hand data on the ground in China or analyzing existing data with a fresh eye for comparative insights.
ISSN:	0925-4994 1573-0751