Asian Journal of Criminology - 📢Preannouncement: Public Lecture on "The Relationism Theory of Criminal Justice – A Paradigm Shift‘’ by Professor Jianhong Liu, Editor-in-Chief of the Asian Journal of Criminology

Thursday 21st March 2024, 5.00pm
Seminar Room, Basement, Institute of Criminology,
Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA
A drinks reception in the basement foyer will follow this seminar for attendees.

There are two significant difficulties in building a general criminal justice theory. First, different from criminology theories, criminal justice produces multiple outcomes at different levels. Second, the scopes of existing theories largely originate from Western contexts and data, few including cross-cultural variation. This paper outlines a unified theory to explain multiple criminal justice outcomes at the system, institutional, and individual levels across cultures under a paradigm shift from the current “monotonic paradigm” to a more general “comparison paradigm.” The new paradigm logically contains the existing paradigm while broadening research questions and scope of criminal justice studies. It constructs a new set of concepts and propositions, presenting an effort toward a general causal criminal justice theory.
Keywords: criminal justice theory; theory building; cross-cultural variation; theoretical paradigm; modeling criminal justice outcomes.
This seminar is free & open to all interested in attending. Please register here (this opens in a new tab).

The preannouncement can be downloaded as PDF here (this opens in a new tab)!