Liqun Cao

Liqun Cao (Ph.D., the University of Cincinnati, 1993) is Professor of sociology and criminology at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada. He is also an adjunct professor at Hunan University. His research interests include China study, criminological theory, gun ownership, policy on ascetic deviance, race and ethnicity in criminal justice, and sociology of policing. His research essays have appeared in many top national and international journals. Professor Cao is the author of "Major Criminological Theories: Concepts and Measurement" (2004) and co-editor of "Lessons of International/Comparative Criminology/Criminal Justice" (2004). He is the lead author of "Policing in Taiwan: From Authoritarianism to Democracy" (2014) with Lan-Ying Huang and Ivan Sun, and he co-edited "The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Criminology" (2014) with Ivan Sun and Bill Hebenton. Professor Cao was a visiting scholar at Max-Planck International Criminal Law and Criminology (2000) in Germany, a recipient of Fulbright Senior Specialist in Lithuania (2004), and is the Honorary member of Albanian Institute of Sociology (2006). He is a life member of Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, American Society of Criminology, and Association of Chinese Professors in Social Sciences in the U.S. Professor Cao is bilingual. He is the founding president of Association of Chinese Criminology and Criminal Justice in the U.S. (2010 to 2012) and is its life-member.