Local scholar honored for contributions to criminology field

Liu Jianhong

A scholar from the Department of Sociology, University of Macau (UM), has been selected to receive the prestigious Freda Adler Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology (ASC), for his contributions to the field of criminology.
Liu Jianhong will receive the award at the annual conference of the ASC, which will  be held in November this year. The awards committee consists of members of the ASC Division of International Criminology. The accolade is presented annually to an international scholar who has made an outstanding contribution to the field of criminology. Past recipients of the award include David Farrington from the University of Cambridge, who is the winner of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology and former president of both the ASC and the British Society of Criminology, and Hans Kerner from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tuebingen, Germany, who has served as the president of the International Society of Criminology and the European Society of Criminology.
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 and the chairman of the General Assembly of the Asian Criminological Society. 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 “British Journal of Criminology.”