Professor Wang, Peng 王鵬
Professor Wang, Peng 王鵬
Peng Wang is a criminologist focusing on Chinese organized crime. His wider research interests include organized crime, mafias, police corruption, military corruption and extra-legal governance.
His doctoral thesis entitled ‘The Chinese Mafia: The rise of extra-legal protection in a guanxi-based society’ developed an empirical analysis of the rise of extra-legal protection in contemporary China by emphasizing two major types of unlawful protectors—the ‘Red Mafia’ (corrupt officials) and the ‘Black Mafia’ (locally-based criminal groups).
Peng is also an associate member of the Extra-legal Governance Institute, University of Oxford.
| Year | Awarding Institution | Qualification |
|---|---|---|
| East China University of Political Science and Law, China | LLB | |
| King's College London | MA Criminology and Criminal Justice | |
| King's College London | PhD |
Peng Wang is a criminologist focusing on Chinese organized crime. His wider research interests include organized crime, mafias, police corruption and the crime-terror nexus. His doctoral thesis entitled ‘The Chinese Mafia: The rise of extra-legal protection in a guanxi-based society’ developed an empirical analysis of the rise of extra-legal protection in contemporary China by emphasizing two major types of unlawful protectors—the ‘Red Mafia’ (corrupt officials) and the ‘Black Mafia’ (locally-based criminal groups). Peng is also an associate member of the Extra-legal Governance Institute, University of Oxford.
| Awardees | Award Date | Honours / Awards / Prizes | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
CHO, Lok Lee | 2021-08-01 | Best Scholarly Article Award – Honorable Mention: American Sociological Association Global and Transnational Sociology | Research Achievement |
| Social Sciences Outstanding Research Output Awards 2016-2017 for Basic Research: Faculty of Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong | Research Achievement |
| Term Period | Position | Professional Societies |
|---|---|---|
| 01/2016-01/2018 | Members of Presidum | Asian Criminological Society |
| 07/2020- | Regular member | British Society of Criminology |
| 2024 | Regular member | ACOP: Cyber Offender Prevention – Academia |
| 07/2025- | Lifetime membership | ALSA: Asian Law and Society Association |
| 07/2025- | Lifetime membership | ACCCJ: Association of Chinese Criminology and Criminal Justice |
| Area of Expertise (EN) | Area of Expertise (ZH) |
|---|---|
| Policing | 警務 |
| Law and society | 法律與社會 |
| Economic sociology | 經濟社會學 |
| Crime and anti-crime | 犯罪與犯罪防治 |
| Corruption and anti-corruption | 腐敗與反腐敗 |
| China studies | 中國研究 |
| Bureaucracy and governance | 官僚體系與治理 |
| Spoken Language(s) (EN) | Spoken Language(s) (ZH) |
|---|---|
| Putonghua | 普通話 |
| English | 英語 |
| Written Language(s) (EN) | Written Language(s) (ZH) |
|---|---|
| English | 英文 |
| Chinese | 中文 |
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