Saturday 24 March 2012

Prof. Kam C.Wong:Criminologist

Professor Wong earned his B.A. (Hons) and J.D. from Indiana University
(Bloomington). He obtained his Ph.D. in criminal justice from SUNY -Albany, and earned
the Remington Award for Distinguished Work in Law and Social Science.

Professor Wong was an Inspector of Police with the Hong Kong Police and was awarded the
Commissioner's High Commendation. He was a one-time black belt karate instructor for
over 20 years. He has practiced and taught law in the U.S. and Hong Kong.

Professor Wong was a former Managing Attorney of Legal Service Corporation in Michigan
and Corporate Counsel for Everex, a public listed company. He was the Director of Chinese
Law Program at Chinese University of Hong Kong. He served as the vice-president (1999 to
2000) and vice-chair (2000 to 2002) to Hong Kong Society of Criminology. He is currently
an Associate Fellow of Center of Criminology, Hong Kong University. He is an organizer
and founding member of Asian Association of Police Studies, of which he was the
vice-President (2001-2) and President (2002-3).

Professor's Wong's publications (over 80 articles and book chapters) appeared
in Police Quarterly; Columbia Journal of Asian Law; Georgetown Journal of Law and Public
Policy; Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology; British Journal of
Criminology; Asian Journal of Criminology; Australian Journal of Law and Society; China
Perspective (French); Crime Review (Korea); China Review; Herald of Law (Yugoslavia);
International Journal of the Sociology of Law; Criminal Law Bulletin; Journal of
Information Law & Technology; Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal; John Marshall
Journal of Computer and Information Law, Education and Law Journal, Asia-Pacific Journal
on Human Rights and the Law, Michigan Journal of Race & Law.

Professor Wong was an editor with the Journal of Crime and Delinquency and Managing
Editor for Police Practice and Research: An International Journal. He was the
Editor-in-Chief, Occasional Paper Series, Chinese Law Program. He is currently on the
Editorial Board of International Journal of Comparative Criminology, Open Journal of Law,
Open Journal of Sociology and Asian Policing.

Professor Wong's latest books published are USA PATRIOT ACT: The Impact of USA
Patriot Act on American Society: An Evidence Based Assessment (2007)and The Making of USA
Patriot Act: Legislation, Implementation, Impact (Beijing: China Law Press, 2008)

Professor Wong is working on three books: Policing in Chinese Characteristics (Peter
Lang, 2008), Cyberspace Goverance in China (Nova Science Publications, 2009)
(Forthcoming), and Police Reform in China (2009)(In progress).

Professor Wong is a legal consultant to Canadian government on China policing and
criminal process issues and was an expert observer at the United Nations Congress on the
Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders. He is a foreign expert to Ministry of
Public Security, People's Republic of China and provided consultation to Hong Kong
Police. He was on the advisory board of the Yale in China - Law program. He was a
visiting scholar/fellow at Scarman Centre, University of Leicester and visiting scholar
at Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University, Cyberspace Institute, George
Washington University, D.C.

Professor Wong has been a regular columnist with the Hong Kong Standard (1998), South
China Morning Post (1999), Hong Kong Economic Journal (2000) and Apple Daily (2001) on
law and order issues. He also contributed to Far Eastern Economic Review, Apple Daily and
other major newspapers in Hong Kong. He was a frequent commentator on Hong Kong law and
justice issues with RTHK, Commercial Radio, Radio Free Asia, TVB, ATV and CNN. He was an
editor-columnist (2002) of a web based crime and justice journal organized by Korea
National Police University faculties (Crime Review).

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