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4 Asian J. Criminology 1 (2009)

handle is hein.journals/asjrcrm4 and id is 1 raw text is: Asian Criminology (2009) 4:1-9 DOI 10.1007/s11417-009-9066-7 Asian Criminology - Challenges, Opportunities, and Directions Jianhong Liu Published online: 14 March 2009 O Springer Science + Business Media B.V. 2009 Abstract Despite considerable advances in the field of criminology in Asia over the past few decades, the pace of growth has been quite slow compared with the rapid development of the field in North America and Europe. This paper discusses key features of the Asian context as they are related to the development of criminology in Asia. The paper examines the major challenges that Asia's diverse culture, legal traditions, crimes, and crime control pose for development of criminology in Asia. It also discusses the opportunities afforded by the Asian context. The paper proposes general strategies in response to the challenges. The author suggests the importance of moving towards a unified paradigm of Asian Criminology. The Asian Journal of Criminology aims to play an instrumental role in this process of advancing Asian criminology. Keywords Asia - Criminology . Crime and justice - Asian criminology . Paradigm - Research methodology - International criminology - Comparative criminology Introduction Today, under the context of globalization, Asia has become a focal point of scholarly examination. Globalization has brought us both intensified contacts and cultural conflicts, to a greater scope then ever before seen in the history of humankind. Global businesses, global consumption, and the flow of migrants around the world have given rise to new experiences of difference and diversity, as well as common ground (Karstedt 2001). The past century witnessed the rise of Asia in both economic and political importance in the context of globalization. Since the postwar era, economic miracles in Japan, and later in Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Singapore, the four 'little dragons', have set new examples of economic prosperity. Now, China and India's performance in the world market as new economic engines has demonstrated that they have their own ways of growth and has presented them as a hope to help with the current world financial crisis. J. Liu (E) University of Macau, Taipa, Macau e-mail: jliu@umac.mo 4_ Springer

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