Ivan Y Sun
Ivan Y. Sun is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice and faculty of Asian Studies at the University of Delaware. He received his Ph.D. in criminal justice from the State University of New York, University at Albany. His research interests include police attitudes and behavior, public assessments of legal authorities, and crime and justice in Asian societies. Dr. Sun has published three books and more than 140 refereed journal articles since 2002, including more than 90 pieces on mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. He is one of the editors of Routledge Handbook of Chinese Criminology (2014) and co-authored the book Policing in Taiwan: From Authoritarianism to Democracy (2014) and Race, Immigration and Social Control: Immigrants' Views on the Police (2018). He has been rated as one of the top 50 most prolific sole and lead authors in eight elite criminology and criminal justice journals. His recent publications on policing have appeared in Justice Quarterly, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, British Journal of Criminology, and Crime and Delinquency. Before joining the academia, Dr. Sun was a law enforcement officer in Taiwan for 13 years and has conducted more than 200-hour direct observation of patrol officers at work in several U.S. police departments. Dr. Sun served as President of the Association of Chinese Criminology and Criminal Justice (ACCCJ) in the U.S. between 2016 and 2018.
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