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Hongming Cheng B.A., LL.M., Ph.D.

Professor, Tenured

Faculty Member in Sociology

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Research Area(s)

  • 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

About me

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

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2015

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

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

Research

Aboriginal Rights Chinese Law and Society Corporations International Criminology Policing White Collar Crime

white-collar crime, international and comparative criminal justice, criminal law, corporations, securities regulation, Chinese law and society, public attitudes toward police, Aboriginal rights and justice.