Crime and Justice in Contemporary Japan / Springer Series on Asian Criminology and Criminal Justice Research (PDF)

Jianhong Liu is Professor of Criminology at University of Macau, China. He is currently the elected Chairman of the General Assembly of the Asian Criminological Society (2016-) and the elected President of the Scientific Commission of the International Society for Criminology (since 2014).  He has served on leadership roles in many international academic organizations and has been appointed by numerous prominent universities and research institutes as honorary professors or research fellows. Professor Liu was the Founding President of Asian Criminological Society (from 2009 to 2015). He is the editor-in-chief of the Asian Journal of Criminology (Springer Publishing), the editor of "Springer Series on Asian Criminology and Criminal Justice", and a member of the editorial boards of more than 20 international academic journals, such as British Journal of Criminology. Professor Liu received his PhD from State University of New York at Albany in 1993.  His primary research interests are international and comparative criminology, Asian Criminology, and Chinese crime and Justice.  He is the author, editor, or co-editor of 29 books, and has published more than 100 articles and book chapters. He is the author of Asian Paradigm and Relationism Theory of Comparative Criminal Justice. In 2016, Professor Liu was selected to receive Freda Adler Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology (ASC), for his outstanding contributions to comparative criminology

Setsuo Miyazawa is a legal sociologist who received LL.B., LL.M., and S.J.D. from Hokkaido University and M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in sociology from Yale. He has been a full-time faculty member at Hokkaido University, Kobe University, Waseda University, Omiya Law School, and Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan before reaching mandatory retirement at Aoyama Gakuin in 2016. He still teaches in Japan as an adjunct lecturer at Waseda and Aoyama Gakuin in the spring. He has also taught as a visiting