Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- Part I - Why compare? Asian countries, the West and comparative criminology.- Introduction to Part I.- 2. The new Asian paradigm: A relational approach.- 3. Asian values, crime and social change.- 4. Comparative empirical co-ordinates and the dynamics of criminal justice in China and the West.- 5. Asian criminology and southern epistemologies.- Part II – Quantitative comparisons.- Introduction to Part II.- 6. When West meets East: Generalizing theory and expanding the conceptual toolkit of criminology.- 7. Korean criminology: Juvenile delinquency and self-control theory.- Part III – Interpretive questions.- Introduction to Part III.- 8. Lost in translation: Doing (and not doing) ethnographic research in village India.- 9. Young offenders’ views of desistance in Japan: A comparison with Scotland.- Part IV – Making comparisons.- Introduction to Part IV.- 10.

Cybercrime and cyber security in ASEAN.- 11.Restorative justice: East and West.- 12. Singapore and Thailand: Explaining differences in death penalty clemency.- 13. Reflecting on comparison: A view from Asia.

About the Author

Professor Jianhong Liu is a Professor at University of Macau. He is the winner of 2016 American Society of Criminology’s “Freda Adler Distinguished Scholar Award”. Prof Liu is the author, editor-in-chief, or co-editor of about 30 books. He has published 100 papers including journal articles and book chapters. He is currently the elected President of the Scientific Commission of the International Society for Criminology (since 2014), the chairman of the General Assembly of the Asian Criminological Society (2016-), and a member of the steering committee of Campbell Collaboration’s Crime and Justice Group (since 2009). Professor Liu was the Founding President of Asian Criminological Society (from 2009 to 2015). He is also the editor-in-chief of the Asian Journal of Criminology