Markets, Politics, and Crime in Contemporary China

Yunhan Zhao is an assistant professor at Colorado State University Pueblo. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University at Albany, SUNY, and his research focuses on crime and deviance, social control, correction and rehabilitation, corruption, public health, spatial analysis, and quantitative methods.Steven F. Messner is a Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of Albany, SUNY. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from Princeton University, and his research focuses on criminology, deviance, macrosociology, social institution and crime, spatial analyses, crime and social control in contemporary China, and community context and criminal offending.