Biography:

Jianhua Xu is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Mannheim Centre for Criminology, Department of Social Policy, LSE. He works as an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Macau (UM). His research interests include the sociology of crime and deviance, policing, victimology, urban sociology, and Macao studies. He is an author of over 60 publications in English and Chinese. Many of his works have appeared in journals such as The China Quarterly, The British Journal of Criminology, Theoretical Criminology and Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, among others. He is currently working on several projects including (1) the pluralization of Chinese policing, (2) the formation of the surveillance society, and (3) casinoization of Macao. During his visit to LSE, he will finish the writing of his book entitled The Chinese Policing Web to be published by Oxford University Press.

Selected publications:

1. Huiquan Zhang, Jianhua Xu* (corresponding author), Jinjin Liu. 2024. How Do Toothless Tigers Bite? Extra-Institutional Governance and Internet Censorship by Local Governments in China. The China Quarterly. doi:10.1017/S0305741024000602 

2. Chen Shi, Jianhua Xu*(corresponding author). 2024. Surveillance cameras and resistance: A case study of a middle school in China, British Journal of Criminology, DOI: 10.1093/bjc/azad078

3. Xu, Jianhua, Xinyue Wang, Guyu Sun. 2024. How Sacrifice Spirit Affects Work-Family Conflict among Rank-And-File Police Officers in China. Policing and Society. 34 (3) 183-199. doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2023.2241967

4. Zhou You, Jianhua Xu* (corresponding author), Sinan Wu, Shangyi Zhu. 2023. Health Fraud against the Elderly in China: The Perspective of Vulnerability Manipulation. Victims & Offenders, 18 (7): 1354-1372

5. Shuai Wei, Anli Jiang, Qipu Hu, Bin Liang, Jianhua Xu* (corresponding author). 2023. Conducting Criminological Fieldwork in China: A Comprehensive Review and Reflection on Power Relations in the Field. Criminology & Criminal Justice. doi.org/10.1177/17488958231166.

6. Xu, Jianhua, Guyu Sun, Sinan Wu, Shangyi Zhu, You Zhou. 2023. Understanding Health Fraud Offenders in China: An Emotional Labour Perspective. Asian Journal of Law and Society. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/als.2023.14

7. Tang In Lao, Jianhua Xu* (corresponding author). 2023. How Casinoization Affects the Police in Macao. Asian Journal of Law and Society. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/als.2023.11

8. Xu, Jianhua, Siying He. 2022. Can grid governance fix the party-state’s broken windows?: A study of stability maintenance in grassroots China. The China Quarterly. 251: 843-865

9. Xu, Jianhua, Guyu Sun, Wei Cao, Wenyuan Fan, Zhihao Pan, Zhaoyu Yao, Han Li. 2021. Stigma, discrimination and hate crimes in Chinese-speaking world amid Covid-19 pandemic.Asian Journal of Criminology. 16: 51–74

10. Xu, Jianhua. 2021. Climbing the protest pyramid: a situational analysis of the resistance of rickshaw drivers in Guangzhou, China. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 65(4): 318-345

11. Xu, Jianhua, Anli Jiang. 2019. Police civilianization and the production of underclass violence: the case of para-police chengguan and street vendors in Guangzhou, China. The British Journal of Criminology, 59(1):64-84.

12. Xu, Jianhua. 2018. Legitimization imperative: the production of crime statistics in Guangzhou, China. The British Journal of Criminology, 58(1):155-76.Hua Zhong, Jianhua Xu, Alex R. Piquero. 2017. Internal migration, social exclusion and victimization: an analysis of Chinese rural-to-urban migrants. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 54(4):479-514.

13. Xu, Jianhua. 2015. Claims-makers vs. non-issue-makers: Media and social construction of motorcycle ban problems in China. Qualitative Sociology Review, 11(2):122-141.

14. Xu, Jianhua. 2014. Authoritarian policing with Chinese characteristics: A case study of motorcycle bans in the Pearl River Delta, Crime, Law and Social Change，61 (4):439-460.

15. Xu, Jianhua. 2013. Police accountability and the commodification of policing in China: a study of police/business posters in Guangzhou. The British Journal of Criminology, 53(6):1093-1117.

16. Xu, Jianhua, Karen Joe Laidler, Maggy Lee. 2013. Doing criminological ethnography in China: opportunities and challenges. Theoretical Criminology, 17(2):271-279.

17. Xu, Jianhua. 2012. Drive-away policing and situational crime prevention in China: an analysis of motorcycle ban (jinmo) policy in Guangzhou. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 56(2):239-264.

18. Xu, Jianhua. 2009. The robbery of motorcycle taxi drivers in China: a lifestyle/routine activity perspective and beyond. The British Journal of Criminology, 49(4): 491-512.