Prof Liu Jianhong from the\nDepartment of Sociology, University of Macau (UM), has\nbeen selected to receive\nthe prestigious Freda Adler Distinguished Scholar Award from the American\nSociety of Criminology (ASC), for his outstanding contributions to the field of\ncriminology.<\/p>
Prof Liu will receive the\naward at the annual conference of the ASC to be held in November this year. The\naward committee consists of members of the ASC Division of International\nCriminology. The award is presented annually to an international scholar who has\nmade an outstanding contribution to the field of criminology. Past recipients\nof the award include David Farrington from the University of Cambridge, who is\nthe winner of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology (knowns as the \u2018Nobel Prize in\nCriminology\u2019) and former president of both the ASC and the British Society of\nCriminology; and Hans Kerner from the Faculty of Law at the University of\nTuebingen, Germany, who has served as the president of the International\nSociety of Criminology and the European Society of Criminology.<\/p>
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Prof\nLiu is an internationally known criminologist and has served as the leader of\nmany international criminology associations. He is currently the president of\nthe Scientific Commission of the International Society for Criminology, the chairman\nof the General Assembly of the Asian Criminological Society, and a member of\nthe steering committee of Campbell Collaboration\u2019s Crime and Justice Group.\nProf Liu is also the editor-in-chief of the Asian\nJournal of Criminology<\/i> (Springer Publishing) and a member of the editorial\nboard of 13 international academic journals, including the prominent British Journal of Criminology<\/i> and five\ntop-ranked SSCI journals. Prof Liu is the author, editor-in-chief, or co-editor\nof more than 20 books. He has published nearly 60 journal articles (including\n31 SSCI articles) and more than 30 book chapters. In addition, Prof Liu is the founder of the Asian\nCriminological Society and its official publication, the Asian Journal of Criminology<\/i>. He has proposed the Asian Paradigm\nand Relationism Justice Theory, which provides important theoretical support\nfor the development of criminology in Asia.<\/p>
Source: Faculty of Social Sciences
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