Jianhong Liu is Professor of Criminology at University of Macau and University Chair Professor at Southwest University of Political Science and Law, China. He is currently the President of Asian Criminological Society, a member of Campbell Collaboration Criminal Justice Group Steering Committee, a member of World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Organized Crime. He 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 13 books, and has published more than 50 articles and book chapters, many in prestigious criminology journals, such as Justice Quarterly, Criminology, British Journal of Criminology, the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency.   He is currently the editor-in-Chief of Asian Journal of Criminology and is also on the editorial board of many academic journals, including Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Crime, Law and Social Change. He was a co-principle investigator (PI: Steve Messner) of a large survey project “Criminal Victimization in Contemporary Urban China: A multi-level Analysis of Survey Data for the City of Tianjin”, funded by US National Science Foundation and PI and Co-PI of many research grants. His research has been funded by National Institute of Justice, United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime.  He has received numerous honorary appointments from the prestigious universities and has been invited by numerous conferences and universities to give keynote speeches and seminars.

In 2016, Professor Liu 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 outstanding contributions to the field of criminology.