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Asian Criminology’s Expansion and Advancement of Research and Crime Control Practices

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Inspired by Professor Jianhong Liu’s article entitled “Asian Criminology—Challenges, Opportunities, and Directions,” published in 2009 in the Asian Journal of Criminology, I attempt to document the expansion of Asian criminology in terms of the numbers of journal articles published, but also to encapsulate some of the unique contributions of original articles published in the Asian Journal of Criminology. To document the expansion of Asian criminology in terms of journal articles, I used the academic search engine, the ISI Web of Science, to identify criminology articles across a variety of Asian countries and time. This led to distinguishing between more traditional criminology and crime control (TCCC) articles and articles focusing on violence against women/children and on trafficking (VAWCT). Second, because it is not yet part of the ISI Web of Science, I read all of the original articles in the Asian Journal of Criminology to account for how Asian criminology is advancing the larger discipline of criminology. The ISI Web of Science data document the rapid expansion of Asian criminology. Some of the specific Asian Journal of Criminology articles are used to exemplify specific examples of how Asian criminology is advancing the field of criminology worldwide through theoretical, methodological and framing designs, and crime control practices.

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  1. I conducted the ISI Web of Science search for traditional criminology publications on June 10, 2015 and the ISI Web of Science search for violence against women and children/trafficking search on June 15, 2015.

  2. While presenting this conference at the 7th Annual Conference of the Asian Society of Criminology, one member of the audience correctly identified “cyber-crimes” as an area that should be included.

  3. I argue that “domestic violence” can be “serious crime,” including homicide (e.g., Belknap et al., 2012; Huang and Lin, 2014).

  4. Quraishi’s work from these data are also in his 2005 book Muslims and Crime: A Comparative Study.

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  1. Department of Ethnic Studies 339 UCB, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309-0339, USA

    Joanne Belknap

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Belknap, J. Asian Criminology’s Expansion and Advancement of Research and Crime Control Practices. Asian Criminology 11, 249–264 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11417-016-9240-7

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