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{"title":"Prejudice in Formation: A Comparative Study of Criminal Justice Majors in the USA and South Korea","authors":"Sunhye Kang,&nbsp;Bitna Kim,&nbsp;Gibbeum Hong,&nbsp;Hyeonna Bak","doi":"10.1007/s11417-026-09497-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11417-026-09497-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This comparative study investigates how prejudicial attitudes related to racial/ethnic diversity and gender equity develop among criminal justice majors across academic stages and national contexts in the USA and South Korea. Using survey data from 325 students at eight universities, the research examines whether levels and predictors of prejudice differ by country and by academic progression from freshman to senior year. Results show that South Korean freshmen reported significantly higher prejudice than their US counterparts, but this difference disappeared by senior year, with no significant differences observed at the senior level. Logistic and OLS regression analyses further revealed that gender and career aspirations (law enforcement, corrections) were consistent predictors of elevated prejudice, while targeted coursework on sexuality and phobia was linked to reduced prejudice, though with culturally contingent effects. These findings indicate that prejudice is dynamic and context-dependent, shaped by the interaction of demographic, educational, and cultural factors. By integrating developmental and cross-national perspectives, the study contributes to addressing key methodological challenges in comparative criminology and underscores the potential role of higher education as a context associated with variation in attitudinal patterns and justice-oriented professional socialization.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45526,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Criminology","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147938478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Relationism and Habitus in Cross-Cultural Police Cooperation: Sino–European Encounters in Policing Transnational Organized Crime","authors":"Xuhong Zuo,&nbsp;Hongming Cheng","doi":"10.1007/s11417-026-09496-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11417-026-09496-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Transnational organized crime (TOC) poses significant challenges for law enforcement, especially in the context of Sino–European cooperation. While previous studies emphasize structural models and legal frameworks, little empirical work has examined how cultural orientations and professional dispositions shape cooperative outcomes. This article addresses that gap by analyzing policy documents and 33 qualitative interviews with officers and experts in China, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. Using Liu’s relationism theory of criminal justice and Bourdieu’s concept of habitus, we develop an integrated framework to explain how divergent logics of relationism and individualism influence trust, evidentiary standards, organizational practice, and reciprocity in cross-border policing. Findings show recurring tensions: European officers stress transparency, codified procedure, and rights-based accountability, while Chinese officers emphasize sincerity, reciprocity, and relational trust. These differences often generate mistrust but also create opportunities for adaptation through training exchanges, liaison work, and other mechanisms that improve coordination across institutional divides.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45526,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Criminology","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147829424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Snapshot of Society: Challenges of Studying Cyber Insecurity in the Global South?","authors":"Irnasya Shafira Hadi,&nbsp;Lennon Yao-Chung Chang,&nbsp;Sharyn Graham Davies","doi":"10.1007/s11417-026-09494-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11417-026-09494-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Digital harm in the Global South is expanding rapidly, yet criminological knowledge about it remains constrained by the dominance of Northern data infrastructures and theory-making. This paper introduces the Snapshot of Societymodel, a methodological and epistemic response designed for contexts where canonical surveys, breach registries, and stable reporting systems are limited or absent. Drawing on a three-phase study of Indonesian public reactions to repeated government data breaches—including civil society interviews, a generationally diverse focus group, and a survey of 1081 respondents—we show how seemingly muted public responses reflect data breach fatigue, a patterned form of adaptive resignation shaped by institutional neglect. The Snapshot model demonstrates how Southern researchers can generate grounded, culturally situated insights despite infrastructural constraints, offering an alternative to methodologies that assume Northern forms of data availability. By situating this approach within Southern criminology’s call to reorient knowledge production towards contexts of the South, the paper positions the Snapshot model as both a methodological innovation and an epistemological intervention. It invites cumulative, comparative Snapshot studies across the region to build a truly Southern digital harm scholarship.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45526,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Criminology","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11417-026-09494-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147829483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Predictive Validity of the Static-99 and Static-99R in Taiwan","authors":"Yung-Ching Chen,&nbsp;Yee-San Teoh","doi":"10.1007/s11417-026-09492-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11417-026-09492-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Risk assessment of recidivism among men who commit sexual offenses is a critical component of treatment planning and post-release supervision. The present study compared the predictive validity of two widely used static risk assessment instruments, the Static-99 and the Static-99R, in a Taiwanese context. The sample comprised 1,360 men who were released from three Taiwanese prisons. Predictive validity was examined using sexual recidivism as the criterion, and recidivism rates across risk levels were also evaluated. Results indicated that both instruments demonstrated acceptable discriminatory power in this sample, with area under the curve (AUC) values ranging from .70 to .73. Based on these findings, recommendations are offered regarding the optimal use and interpretation of these tools within Taiwan. Overall, the results provide empirically grounded guidance for the Taiwanese correctional system in assessing recidivism risk among men who commit sexual offenses.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45526,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Criminology","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147829530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Digital Citizenship or Digital Bondage: How AI-Based Technologies Construct the Identity of Offenders Within Chinese Community Corrections","authors":"Tongtao Lv,&nbsp;Jize Jiang,&nbsp;Yuchen Meng","doi":"10.1007/s11417-026-09493-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11417-026-09493-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Extensive studies have documented how the permeation of algorithmic tactics and data-driven practices into penalty has epitomized actuarial justice (or new penology), reinforced the culture of control, and generated perpetual surveillance. Yet, rare studies to date have examined how these AI-based technologies craft the diverse and fluid identities of offenders as they are entangled with digitalized corrections in China. Drawing on ethnographic data from China’s urban community corrections where smart corrections are extensively constructed, this study focuses on the dynamic process by which offender identities are constructed and enacted in the digitalized penalty. The analysis reveals two intertwined yet seemingly contradictory forms of digital identity: digital citizenship and digital bondage. These digital identities emerge from and are embedded in the strategic deployment of AI-based technologies by correctional workgroups and offenders’ agentic interpretations of technological entanglements. The findings underscore the constitutive yet contested impact of sprawling AI technologies on both penal decision-making and offenders’ lived experiences with Chinese punishment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45526,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Criminology","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147738762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fear of Crime Among Police Cadets in China: A Longitudinal Study","authors":"Jia Qu,&nbsp;Jihong Solomon Zhao,&nbsp;Yan Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s11417-026-09491-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11417-026-09491-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study explores factors associated with fear of crime among Chinese police cadets using four-wave panel data. Findings indicate that fear of crime is relatively low among cadets. Internship experience has a short-term effect, with levels of fear rising temporarily after the internship (second wave) before returning to baseline by the third and fourth waves. In addition, the analysis reveals that positive attitudes toward community policing are significantly associated with lower levels of fear. Female cadets, older cadets, and those specializing in crime-related law and forensics exhibit higher levels of fear. The study offers valuable insights into police training programs and directions for future research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45526,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Criminology","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147560345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Police Legitimacy and Neighborhood Collective Efficacy: Alternative Evidence from a Chinese Community Survey","authors":"Zhan Tuo","doi":"10.1007/s11417-026-09490-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11417-026-09490-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Research on police legitimacy and collective efficacy has grown rapidly, yet evidence remains mixed and is heavily concentrated in Western settings. Drawing on a community survey of residents in 43 communities across 24 streets in Chongqing, China, this study examines whether perceived police legitimacy, procedural justice, and police effectiveness are associated with residents’ perceptions of neighborhood collective efficacy. Ordinary least squares models, with a robustness check using nonparametric bootstrap resampling, indicate that higher perceived police legitimacy, procedural justice, and effectiveness are each associated with higher perceived collective efficacy net of sociodemographic controls. We also estimate supplemental models that disaggregate collective efficacy into informal social control and social cohesion and trust to assess whether associations differ across components. The study extends empirical tests of the relationship between police legitimacy and collective efficacy to a large Chinese city and underscores the value of considering collective efficacy’s subdimensions when theorizing how policing relates to neighborhood capacity for informal social control.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45526,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Criminology","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147340115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Perceived as a Threat: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Transgender-Police Relations and Institutional Betrayal in Pakistan","authors":"Muhammad Zainul Abidin,&nbsp;Azrina Husin","doi":"10.1007/s11417-026-09488-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11417-026-09488-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examines how transgender individuals in Punjab, Pakistan, encounter policing not as a protective institution but as a site of recurring harm. Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), we explore in-depth interviews with 15 transgender participants whose everyday interactions with law enforcement were marked by misgendering, mockery, arbitrary detention, coercive sexual encounters, and physical violence. These violations were not isolated; they formed a pattern of symbolic and structural domination that eroded institutional trust and produced a chronic sense of civic abandonment. Framed through Institutional Trust Theory, Symbolic Interactionism, Labelling Theory, and critical traditions including Queer and Feminist Criminology, the analysis reveals how the transgender body is criminalized, policed, and rendered hyper-visible as a threat yet invisible as a victim. At the same time, participants resisted this dehumanization through silence, advocacy, ritualized strategies of survival, and engagement with reform efforts. The study not only highlights how policing in the Global South operates through colonial residues and gendered hierarchies but also foregrounds transgender voices as agents of transformative justice. Ultimately, it calls for reimagining justice not through procedural reforms alone, but through the lived truths and reparative agency of those historically silenced.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45526,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Criminology","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147340073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Patterns of Youth Violence: A Profile Analysis of State Court Cases in Singapore","authors":"Narayanan Ganapathy,&nbsp;Vanita Kaneson,&nbsp;Samantha Sim","doi":"10.1007/s11417-026-09489-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11417-026-09489-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This research examines 210 cases of youth offenders, aged 18 to below 21, tried in Singapore’s State Courts for violent offences, excluding sexual violence. While global research on youth crime is extensive, local studies have been limited. This study adopts a sociological model to explore both structural and contextual factors contributing to youth violence. Using an integrated framework of social capital, social control, routine activities, and the subculture of violence, the study analyses how a lack of social and cultural capital correlates with low social control, leading youths to engage in violent subcultures. The findings reveal that males were notably overrepresented in this cohort. Violent offences in Singapore typically involve assaults and rioting, attributed to strict legal sanctions against weapons possession and collectivist cultural norms. The dominant form of violence observed was “expressive” in nature, shaped by the prevalent subculture of violence. The study found that demographically similar individuals and groups with comparable violent tendencies often converge, resulting in violent incidents.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45526,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Criminology","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147337594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The SK Group Scandal and Systemic Corporate Crime: Structural, Institutional, and Cultural Logics in South Korea’s Chaebol System","authors":"Zhuoyu Zeng,&nbsp;Bruce M. Z. Cohen","doi":"10.1007/s11417-025-09486-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11417-025-09486-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Existing corporate crime research, grounded in Western assumptions of dispersed ownership and independent regulation, has inadequately addressed the distinctive mechanisms of malfeasance within South Korea’s family-controlled conglomerates, known as ‘chaebols’. This article investigates the structural, institutional, and cultural logics of corporate crime under the chaebol system through the 2003 SK Group accounting scandal. Drawing on academic literature, judicial archives, and media reports, our analysis reveals a tripartite dynamic. Structurally, cross-shareholding and concentrated family control, coupled with symbolic governance facades, particularly in the absence of robust external oversight, help explain transparency failures and risk-laden misconduct. Institutionally, the politico-business symbiosis of South Korea, reinforced by resource dependence, elite cohesion, and revolving-door dynamics, fostered regulatory capture and selective enforcement. Rather than simple failure, this reflects a patterned permissiveness in which oversight is selectively withdrawn and misconduct tolerated. Culturally, Confucian norms of hierarchy and loyalty align with Scott’s cultural-cognitive pillar, rendering paternalistic leadership legitimate and whistleblowing deviant. Such norms help rationalize state leniency, embedding elite impunity within collective narratives of growth and stability. Thus, this article proposes an integrated “structural-institutional-cultural coupling” framework to reveal how corporate crime is systematically reproduced through the interplay of concentrated power, institutional tolerance, and cultural legitimation; it concludes with policy recommendations including strengthening corporate criminal liability, restricting presidential pardons, and advancing governance restructuring to enhance corporate accountability and legal robustness. By challenging the applicability of mainstream Western theories, this research offers a new theoretical lens for understanding corporate governance and crime in South Korea and comparable contexts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45526,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Criminology","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145831477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}