Biographical Note

Hongming Cheng studies white collar crime and corporate crime in the context of globalization and regional regulatory cooperation. His current work uses the term “cheap capitalism” to capture one of the pernicious dimensions of capitalism and investigates its impact on corporate crime, the ironical effect of the triple helix of government-industry-university, the structural determinants of white collar crime enforcement, and the application of Western theories to understanding developing countries. He also studies Aboriginal citizens' attitudes toward police, comparative criminology, and sociology of China.

Currently Teaching

• SOC 212.3 Introduction to Criminology
• SOC 214.3 Social Control
• SOC 310.3 White Collar and Corporate Crime in the Global Context
• SOC 311.3 Youth Crime Justice & Social Control
• SOC 312.3 Current Issues in Criminal Justice
• SOC 418/818.3 Advanced Criminology

Research Interests

• White Collar and Corporate Crime
• International and Comparative Criminal Justice
• Criminal Law and Constitution
• Transnational Financial Regulation
• Corporations, Corporate Governance, and Corporate Social Responsibility
• Securities Regulation
• Chinese Law and Society

Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work

• White Collar and Corporate Crime
• Youth Crime
• Technology and Crime
• Chinese Law and Society
• Comparative Law and Justice
• Regulation

Subject Areas for Accepting Press Inquiries

• China
• White Collar and Corporate Crime in the Global Context
• International Education in Law, Sociology and Criminology
• Cheap Capitalism
• Global Lawyering
• Canada-Chinese Relations

Representative Publications

• Hongming Cheng, 2012.  “Cheap Capitalism: A Sociological Study of Food Crime in China,” British Journal of Criminology. 52 (2): 254-273. First published online October 19, 2011, doi: 10.1093/bjc/azr078. Full text: http://bjc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/azr078?ijkey=FpDGY4FpVoporzv&keytype=ref
• Hongming Cheng, 2012. “Financial Fraud in China: A Structural Examination of Law and Law Enforcement,” in David Brotherton, Stephen Handelman and Susan Will (Eds.), How They Got Away With It: White-Collar Crime and the Financial Meltdown. New York, US: Columbia University Press. Pp. 383-400.
• Hongming Cheng, 2011. Commercial Crime and Commercial Regulation: A Comparative Perspective. Hangzhou: Zhejiang University Press & Bright (US).
• Hongming Cheng and Ling Ma, 2009.  White Collar Crime and the Criminal Justice System: Bank Fraud and Corruption in China.  Journal of Financial Crime, 16(2): 166-179.
• Hongming Cheng, 2008.  Insider Trading in China: The Case for the Chinese Securities Regulatory Commission.  Journal of Financial Crime, 15(2): pp 165-178. 
• Hongming Cheng, 2004.  Advertising Fraud.  In Lawrence Salinger (ed.), The Encyclopedia of White-Collar and Corporate Crime.  Sage Publications, pp. 9-14.
• Hongming Cheng, 2004.  Insider Trading.  In Lawrence Salinger (ed.), The Encyclopedia of White-Collar and Corporate Crime.  Sage Publications, pp. 427-432.

Honours and Awards

• Invited Individual Expert, 12th United Nations Congress and Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, Salvador, Brazil, 2010
• Invited Speaker, the 27th Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime, Jesus College, University of Cambridge, UK, 2009
• Invited Lecturer, RCMP Integrated Market Enforcement Team Training Workshop, Vancouver, BC., 2009
• Expert, ProCon.org on Insider Trading Regulation, 2009 to present
• Visiting Professor, East China Normal University, 2008
• Foreign Expert, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2005-2007
• Founding Director and Senior Research Fellow, Sino-West Legal Studies Center, 2003-2004
• Chevening Scholar, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1997-1998