Assistant professor in Criminology at the University of Nottingham. Research expertise lies in community sanctions and measures, criminal sentencing, governance and social control, comparative criminal justice, and Chinese studies. Author of Governance, Social Control and Legal Reform in China: Community Sanctions and Measures (Palgrave Macmillan 2018). Winner of the Asian Criminological Society Dintinguished Book Prize 2019. Non-practicing attorney in China.
Latest publication on digital feminism, sex offender registration and local penal reforms in China can be found here:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-020-09897-z
Latest report for the Sentencing Council for England and Wales (Equality and Diversity in the Work of the Sentencing Council) can be accessed here:
https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/publications/item/equality-and-diversity-in-the-work-of-the-sentencing-council/.
Experience
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2022–presentAssistant professor , University of Nottingham
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2020–2022Senior Lecturer , University of Hertfordshire
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2015–2020Lecturer, University of Hertfordshire
Education
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2015University of Nottingham, PhD, comparative criminal justice and penology
Publications
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2020Exploring the Bottom-Up Reform of Sex Offender Registration in China: Carceral Feminism and Populist Authoritarianism, Crime, Law and Social Change-Springer
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2018Governance, Social Control and Legal Reform in China: Community Sanctions and Measures (Winner of the Asian Criminological Society Distinguished Book Prize 2019), Palgrave Macmillan
Grants and Contracts
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2021Equality and Diversity in the Work of the Sentencing Council
- Role:
- Principal investigator
- Funding Source:
- Ministry of Justice, UK
Professional Memberships
- British Society of Criminology
- European Society of Criminology
- Asian Criminological Society
- Nottingham. UK
- @Alice_Qi_Chen
- Article Feed
- qi.chen@nottingham.ac.uk
- ORCID
- Joined
