CJRC Adjunct Professor Jianhong Liu from the University of Macau has been selected to receive the prestigious Freda Adler Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology for his outstanding contributions to the field of criminology. Prof Liu will receive his award at the ASC conference to be held in November this year.
Prof Liu is an internationally known criminologist and has served as the leader of many international criminology associations. He is currently the president of the Scientific Commission of the International Society for Criminology, the chairman of the General Assembly of the Asian Criminological Society, and a member of the steering committee of Campbell Collaboration’s Crime and Justice Group. Prof Liu is also the editor-in-chief of the Asian Journal of Criminology (Springer Publishing) and a member of the editorial board of 13 international academic journals, including the prominent British Journal of Criminology and five top-ranked SSCI journals. Prof Liu is the author, editor-in-chief, or co-editor of more than 20 books. He has published nearly 60 journal articles (including 31 SSCI articles) and more than 30 book chapters. In addition, Prof Liu is the founder of the Asian Criminological Society and its official publication, the Asian Journal of Criminology. He has proposed the Asian Paradigm and Relationism Justice Theory, which provides important theoretical support for the development of criminology in Asia.
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