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16 Asian J. Criminology 1 (2021)

handle is hein.journals/asjrcrm16 and id is 1 raw text is: Asian Journal of Criminology (2021) 16:1-4 https://doi.org/1 0.1007/si 1417-021-09347-2 Covid-19 and Asian Criminology: Uncertainty, Complexity, and the Responsibility of AJOC Amidst Eventful Times Jianhong Liu' -Yan Zhang2 -Xiaoxiang Wang3 Published online: 1 March 2021 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. part of Springer Nature 2021 The 2020 Covid-19 pandemic is unquestionably one of the most influential worldwide events to occur in recent history. As of January 2021, the global infections surpassed 100 million, and more than 2 million lives were killed by the virus (WHO 2021). The magni- tude of the pandemic-the shutdowns and disruptions permeating individuals' everyday life, institutional routines, and global governance-is calling for social scientists world- wide to think deeply about basic questions of social order and social change. Likewise, Asian criminologists are no exception. The AJOC has always been committed to advancing the study of criminology and criminal justice in Asian contexts (Liu 2009). Now, it is high time to keep that commitment and contribute an Asian understanding of the consequences of the pandemic in criminology and criminal justice. Therefore, we organized this Covid- 19 special issue. Covid-19 can be seen as the largest criminological experiment in history (Stickle and Felson 2020). Relevant studies are exponentially growing, an overwhelming majority of which has focused on the crime rates during the pandemic. Initial evidence shows that con- ventional crimes such as residential burglary declined due to the social distancing meas- ures and lockdown policy which increased guardianship over personal property and space (e.g., see Boman and Gallupe 2020; Felson et al. 2020; Miyar et al. 2020; Mohler et al. 2020). In contrast, the stay-at-home orders in the pandemic might create a worst-case sce- nario for individuals suffering from domestic violence (DV) as cases and arrests related to DV increased during the period (e.g., see Boserup et al. 2020; Bradbury-Jones and Isham 2020; Mohler et al. 2020; Piquero et al. 2020). A few research paid special attention to the potential impacts of pandemic policing on police legitimacy (Grace 2020; White and Fradella 2020). Overall, the existing studies are concentrating on western societies. E Jianhong Liu jliu@um.edu.mo Yan Zhang ian.zhang@anu.edu.au Xiaoxiang Wang xiaoxiang.427@163.com Faculty of Law, University of Macau, Taipa, Macau, China 2 School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), Australian National University, Canberra, Australia 3 Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China Springer

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