Biographical Note

Hongming Cheng is Full Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Saskatchewan. Trained in law, sociology and criminology, he holds a LL.M. from Birmingham Law School in the UK and a Ph.D. in Criminology from Simon Fraser University. He was an Edmond J. Safra Network Fellow at Harvard University, a Senior Fellow at Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research in Germany, and a Visiting Professor at Koguan School of Law, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He was also an Invited Individual Expert at the 12th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, and a Faculty Speaker at the 27th Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime in 2009.

His research takes a criminological and socio-legal approach toward investigating how the relationships of power are produced and reproduced. He works on a variety of areas including crimes of the powerful (white-collar, corporate, state crime); policing and society; violence against women; media, deviance, and social control; land rights of marginalized groups; securities regulation; and Chinese law and society.

He is the author of Financial Crime in China: Developments, Sanctions, and the Systemic Spread of Corruption (2015, McMillan/Palgrave). He has published in general criminology journals (British Journal of Criminology and Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice), specialized white-collar crime journals (Journal of Financial Crime and Crime Law Social Change), a specialized policing journal (Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management), gender studies journals (Journal of Gender Studies, and Feminist Media Studies), and area/development studies journals (The Journal of Asian and African Studies and Forum for Development Studies).

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, and Social Control
• SOC 312.3 Current Issues in Criminal Justice
• SOC 415.3 Selected Problems in Social Control
• SOC 418/818.3 Advanced Criminology

Research Interests

• Crimes of the powerful (white-collar, corporate, state crime)
• policing and society
• Violence against women
• Media, deviance, and social control
• Land rights of Aboriginal citizens and Chinese peasants
• Corporations and securities regulation
• Chinese law and society

Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work

• Crimes of the powerful (white-collar, corporate, state crime)
• policing and society
• Violence against women
• Media, deviance, and social control
• Land rights of Aboriginal citizens and Chinese peasants
• Corporations and securities regulation
• Chinese law and society

Subject Areas for Accepting Press Inquiries

• China
• White-collar and corporate crime in the global context
• Corporate governance
• International education in law, sociology, and criminology
• Cheap capitalism
• Global lawyering
• Policing
• Canada-Chinese relations

Selected Recent Publications

2025

• Geping Qiu, Jiawei Zhao, and Hongming Cheng 2025). Criminalising feminism: Feminist activists’ experiences and perceptions of state repression in China. Journal of Criminology, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/26338076251323303
• Yujie Zhang and Hongming Cheng. 2025. Talented Youths or Dangerous Criminals? Exploring Judicial Attitudes in the Sentencing of Data Crime Cases in Chinese Courts. Criminal Justice and Behavior, Online First. https://doi.org/10.1177/00938548241313439
• Jia Qu and  Hongming Cheng. 2025. Understanding the Gendered Landscape of the Police Force in China: A Qualitative Study of Chinese Women Police Officers. Feminist Criminology, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/15570851251313781
• Yixuan Wang, Hongming Cheng, Junxia Yang, Yue Hu, & Xiaoguang Li 2025. Self or children? Navigating intensive mothering ideology and maternal agency for rural-to-urban migrant working mothers in China. Journal of Family Studies, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/13229400.2025.2450605

2024

•  Jia Qu and  Hongming Cheng. 2024. Policing telecommunication and cyber fraud: Perceptions and experiences of law enforcement officers in China. Crime, Law and Social Change, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-024-10143-z

2023

•  Yixuan Wang, Xiaoguang Li, Hongming Cheng & Lizhi Zhang 2023. Understanding responses to managerialism: face culture and university faculty working under the shadow of ‘Publish or Perish’, Culture and Organization, DOI: 10.1080/14759551.2023.2283072 
• Jiewen Chen and Hongming Cheng 2023. Achieving postfeminist ideals: A study of Chinese female wanghongs and their self-framing on social media. Feminist Media Studies. Advance online publication.https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2023.2243547
• Joseph Asomah, Emeka Dim, Yiyan Li, & Hongming Cheng. 2023. What Factors Are Associated with Public Corruption Perception? Evidence from Canada. Journal of Financial Crime. Vol. ahead-of-print https://doi.org/10.1108/JFC-04-2023-0078

2022

• Geping Qiu and Hongming Cheng 2022. Gender and power in the Ivory tower: sexual harassment in graduate supervision in China. Journal of Gender Studies. First published November 3, DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2022.2138839 
• Hongming Cheng, Wei Wang, and Longhai Li. 2022. Determinants of Citizen Acceptance of White-Collar Crime in China. Journal of Asian and African Studies. First published September 15, Online First. https://doi.org/10.1177/00219096221123742 
• Joseph Asomah, Emeka Dim, Yiyan Li, & Hongming Cheng. 2022. Are women less corrupt than men? Evidence from Ghana. Crime Law Social Change. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-022-10034-1.

2019

• Bronwen Russell and Hongming Cheng. 2019. A Critical Analysis of Securities Crime in Canada. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, First published January 21, 2019, Advance Online. 

2018

• Joseph Asomah and Hongming Cheng. 2018. Food Crime in the Context of Cheap Capitalism. In Ron Hinch and Allison Gray (eds.) A Handbook of Food Crime: Immoral and Illegal Practices in the Food Industry and What to Do about Them. Policy Press (University of Bristol Press).
• Joseph Asomah and Hongming Cheng. 2018. The Sociology of Crime and Juvenile Delinquency. In J. Michael Ryan (ed.) Core Concepts in Sociology. Blackwell-Wiley.

2016

• Wei Wang and Hongming Cheng, 2016. The Credibility of Oversight and Aggregate Rates of White-Collar Crime. In Shanna R. Van Slyke, Michael L. Benson, and Francis T. Cullen (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of White-Collar Crime. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 540-560.
• Hongming Cheng, 2016. Land Reforms and the Conflicts over the Use of Land: Implication for the Vulnerability of Peasants in Rural China. Journal of Asian and African Studies, First Published July 16, 2016, OnlineFirst. 
• Hongming Cheng and Ling Ma, 2016. A Comparative Study on Land Rights of Peasants in China and Aboriginal Citizens in Canada and their Impact on Development. Forum for Development Studies.43 (2): 311-331. 

2015

• Hongming Cheng, 2015. Financial Crime in China: Developments, Sanctions, and the Systemic Spread of Corruption. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Hongming Cheng, 2015. Factors Influencing Public Satisfaction with the Local Police: A Study in Saskatoon, Canada. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, 38(4). 
• Wei Wang and Hongming Cheng, 2015. Environmental Crime as Corporate Crime. In Carolyn Brooks and Bernard Schissel (eds.), Marginality and Condemnation: A Critical Introduction to Criminology, 3rd Edition. Halifax, NS: Fernwood.

2013

• Hongming Cheng, 2013. 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, NY: Columbia University Press, pp.383-400.
• Hongming Cheng, 2013. Advertising Fraud. In Lawrence Salinger (ed.), The Encyclopedia of White-Collar & Corporate Crime, Second Edition.Sage Publications.
• Hongming Cheng, 2013. Insider Trading. In Lawrence Salinger (ed.), The Encyclopedia of White-Collar & Corporate Crime, Second Edition. Sage Publications.

2012

• Hongming Cheng and David Friedrichs, 2012. White Collar and Corporate Crime in China. In Liqun Cao, Ivan Y. Sun, Bill Hebenton (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Criminology. New York, NY: Taylor & Francis Group, pp.238-250.
• 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 

Honours and Awards

• Edmond J. Safra Network Fellow, Harvard University, USA, 2014-15
• Official Academic Visitor, Centre for Criminology, Oxford University, UK, 2013-14
• Senior Fellow, Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Duisburg, Germany, 2013-14
• 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
• Chevening Scholar, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1997-98

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