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LiYing Li

Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology

Criminal Justice & Criminology

Degree

PhD in Sociology

University of Utah

MS in Demography

University of California

BA in English Language and Literature

Beijing Teachers' College

Published Works

  • Li, L. (2019). Child Trafficking in China: Analysis on the Trafficker, Victim, Buyer, Location, and Process Characteristics. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, http://ijo.sagepub.com/
  • Li, L. (2017). Book Chapter Review. Pearson Education, https://www.pearson.com/us/
  • LI, L. (2017). The hebephiliac: Pedophile or teleiophiliac?. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ijo
  • Li, L. (2016). Book Chapter Review. Pearson Education, https://www.pearson.com/us/
  • Li, L. (2016). Examining the Academic Achievement-Delinquency Relationship among Southeast Asian-Americans. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ijo
  • Li, L. (2016). Mainlandization, the ICAC and the Seriousness Attached by Local Politicians to Corruption in Post-1997 Hong Kong. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ijo
  • Li, L. (2015). Categorization and Prediction of crimes of passion based on Attitudes toward Violence. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/international-journal-of-offender-therapy-and-comparative-criminology/journal200930
  • Li, L. (2015). CJ: Realities and Challenges, 2nd edition. McGraw-Hill Higher Education,
  • Li, L. (2015). From cultural denial to severe punishment: Trafficking of women for sex in Israel (1990-2012) . International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, http://ijo.sagepub.com/
  • Li, L. (2015). Reframing Serial Murder within Empirical Research: Offending and Adjudication Patterns of Male, Female, and Partnered Serial Killers. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice , http://ijo.sagepub.com/
  • Li, L. (2013). The Case of Tainted Milk - Punishing Economic Criminals in China . (). In Fang, Qiang and Li, Xiaobing (Eds.), Legal Reform in China, The University Press of Kentucky . http://www.worldcat.org/title/modern-chinese-legal-reform-new-perspectives/oclc/788281863
  • Li, L., Mowder, D. (2013). Jiang Zemin: Technocrats vs. Bureaucratic System. (pp 630). Lexington Books. http://www.worldcat.org/title/evolution-of-power-chinas-struggle-survival-and-success/oclc/864899546
  • Li, L. (2012). A PSYCHOSOCIAL MEASURE OF THE FACTUAL AUTONOMY AND JOB SATISFACTION AMONG PRISON EMPLOYEES. Criminal Justice Series - A Critical Journal of Crime, Law & Society, http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/gjup20/current#.VX3DFMbbI7I
  • Li, L. (2012). Criminal Justice in Action. Cengage Learning,
  • Alejano-Steele, R. A., Li, L. (2012). Trafficking in Women . Rosllyn Muraskin (Ed.), Women and Justice: It's a Crime, 5th edition, Pearson Prentice Hall , http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/Women-and-Justice-Its-a-Crime/9780135120897.page
  • Li, L. (2011). Community Corrections Professionals' Attitudes About Sex Offenders: is the CATSO Applicable?. Criminal Justice Series - A Critical Journal of Crime, Law & Society, http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/gjup20/current#.VX3DFMbbI7I
  • Li, L. (2011). Conjugal Visitation Could Test the Limits of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. Criminal Justice Series - A Critical Journal of Crime, Law & Society, http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/gjup20/current#.VX3DFMbbI7I
  • Li, L., Ma, Y. (2010). Adjudication and Legal Reforms in Contemporary China . Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice (JCCJ), 26(1), 36-52. http://ccj.sagepub.com/content/26/1.toc.
  • Li, L. (2010). An Introduction to Criminal Justice Textbook. Wadsworth ,
  • Li, L. (2010). CJ: Realities and Challenges, 1st edition. McGraw-Hill Higher Education,
  • Li, L. (2010). Essentials of Criminal Justice, 7th edition by Larry Siegel . Cengage Learning ,
  • Li, L. (2010). Imbalanced Sex Ratio and Crimes in China . American Review for China Studies , 11(1), 19-31. http://personal.crocodoc.com/9dCSOvf.
  • Li, L. (2010). Lessons Learned About Policing: Field Notes from Interviews with Japanese Police Officers. Journal of International Criminal Justice Review , http://icj.sagepub.com/
  • Li, L. (2009). Corrections and Punishment in China: Information and Analysis. for special issue on Crime and Justice in Contemporary China for the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice (JCCJ),
  • Li, L. (2009). Criminology In and Of China: Discipline and Power. for special issue on Crime and Justice in Contemporary China for the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice (JCCJ),
  • Li, L. (2009). Introduction to Criminal Justice: The Human Dimension. McGraw-Hill ,
  • Li, L. (2009). The Essence of Criminology. McGraw-Hill ,
  • Li, L. (2007). Does Size Really Matter?: A Reexamination of Sheldon's Somatotypes and Criminal Behavior . The Southwest Journal of Criminal Justice ,
  • Li, L. (2007). Marriage and Family . In Li, Jieli (Ed.), Sociology, in Lu, Shuming (Ed.), Series on Western Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences - Sociology, Peking Renmin University Press ,
  • Li, L. (2007). The Essence of Criminology. McGraw-Hill ,
  • Li, L. (2005). China's One-Child Generation. In Luo, Jing (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Civilization: 1949-Present, Greenwood Publishing Group , http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/encyclopedia-of-contemporary-chinese-civilization-jing-luo/1006997767?ean=9780313327681
  • Li, L. (2005). Judicial Reform in China . In Luo, Jing (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Civilization: 1949-Present, Greenwood Publishing Group , http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/encyclopedia-of-contemporary-chinese-civilization-jing-luo/1006997767?ean=9780313327681
  • Li, L. (2005). Suicide in Taiwan. In Luo, Jing (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Civilization: 1949-Present, Greenwood Publishing Group , http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/encyclopedia-of-contemporary-chinese-civilization-jing-luo/1006997767?ean=9780313327681
  • Eshleman , J. R., Cashion , G. B., Basirico , A. L., Li, L. (2005). Understanding Sociology, 2nd edition . Horizon Textbook Publishing,
  • Li, L. (2005). Urban Family Structure in Contemporary China . In Luo, Jing (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Civilization: 1949-Present, Greenwood Publishing Group , http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/encyclopedia-of-contemporary-chinese-civilization-jing-luo/1006997767?ean=9780313327681
  • Eshleman, J. R., Cashion , G. B., Basirico , A. L., Li, L. (2004). Understanding Sociology, 1st edition . Horizon Textbook Publishing ,
  • Li, L. (2003). Fatalistic/Egoistic Suicide? A Case Study of Suicide Among Rape Victims in Late Qing China . American Review for China Studies , 4(2), 55-64. .
  • Li, L. (2003). Suicides in Taiwan . In Li, Xiaobing and Pan, Zuohong (Eds.), Taiwan in the Twenty-first Century, University Press of America ,
  • Li, L., Nash , J. (2002). Incest, Adultery and Kinship in Late Qing China: An Exchange Perspective . American Review for China Studies , 3(1), 59-76. http://personal.crocodoc.com/ncSkj7L.
  • Li, L. (2002). Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952 . International Criminal Jusstice Review ,
  • Li, L. (2002). Traditional Chinese Widows and Suicide: Evidence for Durkheim's Fatalistic Suicide. American Review for China Studies , 3(2), 49-56. http://personal.crocodoc.com/h5BUzC6.
  • Li, L. (2001). Gendered Subjects, Biomedical Objects: A Critical Reader in Women's Health . Pearson Education ,
  • Li, L., Nash , J. (2001). Sex and Punishment in Late Qing China (1747-1903): An Application of the Sex Ratio Theory . American Review of China Studies , 2(1), 1-16. http://personal.crocodoc.com/RJNkWjM.
  • Li, L. (2001). Thinking About Crime and Control . International Criminal Justice Review ,
  • Li, L. (2000). Causes of Infant Mortality in China: 1988-1990 . Abstract Only Population Index , 65(3). .
  • Li, L. (1999). The Ultimate Loss: Rape and Suicide in Qing China 1744-1903 . International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice , 23(1), 267-276. http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcac20/23/1.
  • Li, L. (1999). They Are Expendable--Adultery and Homicide in Late Imperial China . International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice , 23(2), 91-101. http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcac20/23/2.
  • Li, L. (1998). Causes of Infant Mortality in China: 1988-1990. Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology , 23(2), 97-103. http://ojs.library.okstate.edu/osu/index.php/FICS/issue/view/152.
  • Li, L. (1996). Predicting and Explaining Sex Offenders' Sentences in Late Imperial China: 1747-1796 . International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice , 20(1), 41-58. http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcac20/20/1.
  • Li, L. (1995). Chinese Rural Women: Production and Reproduction . Free Inquiry on Creative Sociology , 23(2), 97-103. http://ojs.library.okstate.edu/osu/index.php/FICS/issue/view/136.
  • Li, L. (1995). Crimes in China: 1744-1903 . National Social Science Journal , 9(1), 1-14. .
  • Li, L. (1995). Sociological Explanations of Crimes in Late Imperial China: 1744-1903 . International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice , 19(1), 107-126. http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcac20/19/1.
  • Li, L. (1992). Chinese Women Under Socialism. Northeast Edition of the National Social Science Journal , 3(4), 86-113. .

Research Interests

Criminal behavior, sex offender and sex offending, violent criminals such as serial killers, white collar crimes, comparative criminal justice, quantitative and qualitive research

Teaching Interests

Criminological theories, serial killers and violent offenders, sex offenders and offending, research methods and statistics

Office Hours

Tuesday - [10:00 to 12:00]

[13:30 to 14:00]

Thursday - [10:00 to 12:00]

[13:30 to 14:00]