News Express: UM professor receives award from American Society of Criminology
新聞快訊：澳大教授獲美國犯罪學學會獎項
劉建宏
Liu Jianhong
澳大教授獲美國犯罪學學會獎項
澳門大學法學院客席特聘教授劉建宏獲美國犯罪學學會2025年塞林&格盧克獎（Thorsten Sellin & Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck Award），以表彰其在國際犯罪學與比較犯罪學領域的卓越貢獻。是次獲獎不僅是對劉建宏個人學術成就的高度肯定，也彰顯了非西方學者在國際犯罪學研究領域的重要影響力。
美國犯罪學學會在致劉建宏的賀信中表示，評選委員會對他的學術工作印象極為深刻，高度認可他為推動比較犯罪學發展作出的重大貢獻。評選委員會特別提到，劉建宏是亞洲犯罪學學會創始人，並一直擔任《亞洲犯罪學期刊》主編，在促進亞洲及全球犯罪學學科發展發揮了關鍵的領導作用。
劉建宏於2007年加入澳大。為推動亞洲犯罪學制度化（institutionalisation），他以澳大為基地，在2009年創辦了亞洲犯罪學學會。學會迄今已舉辦15屆年會，每年均吸引亞洲乃至世界各地的眾多學者參與。近年，劉建宏於澳大法學院創辦了實證法學研究中心，致力在方法論層面將人工智能與大數據技術賦能法學研究。
劉建宏於2014年至今擔任國際犯罪學學會學術委員會主席。他提出並發展“刑事司法的關係主義理論”，作為唯一來自非西方國家的犯罪學理論被編入美國著名犯罪學教材；他還提出“注重情境”（context-focused approach）的研究方法論，創立了亞洲犯罪學理論方法論體系。他發表的著作達220多部。此外，劉建宏還獲多項國際知名獎項，包括2016年美國犯罪學學會“弗裡達．艾德勒傑出學者獎”（Freda Adler Distinguished Scholar Award）、2018年美國刑事司法科學學會“吉哈德．O. W. 米勒傑出學者獎”（G. O. W. Mueller Award for Distinguished Scholar）等。
Thorsten Sellin & Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck Award是美國犯罪學學會的頂級獎項，僅授予美國以外、在犯罪學學科取得最突出成就的學者。該獎項自1974年設立以來僅有兩位亞洲學者獲獎。
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UM professor receives award from American Society of Criminology
Liu Jianhong, adjunct distinguished professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Macau (UM), has been honoured with the 2025 Thorsten Sellin & Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck Award by the American Society of Criminology (ASC) in recognition of his significant contributions to the fields of international and comparative criminology. The award not only celebrates Prof Liu’s academic achievements, but also highlights the significant influence of non-Western scholars in the field of international criminology.
In its congratulatory letter to Prof Liu, ASC stated that the Executive Board is deeply impressed by his academic excellence and highly recognised his ‘substantial contributions to advancing comparative criminology’. They also highlighted Prof Liu’s leadership as the founder of the Asian Criminological Society and the editor-in-chief of the Asian Journal of Criminology, where he has played a key role in promoting the development of criminology in Asia and globally.
Prof Liu joined UM in 2007. To promote the academic institutionalisation of criminology in Asia, he founded the Asian Criminological Society in 2009, with its headquarters at UM. The society has held 15 annual conferences, attracting scholars from Asia and around the world every year. In recent years, Prof Liu established the Centre for Empirical Legal Studies at UM’s Faculty of Law, which is committed to empowering legal research with artificial intelligence and big data technology at the methodological level.
Prof Liu has been the chairman of the Scientific Committee of the International Society of Criminology since 2014. The ‘Relationism Theory of Criminal Justice’ he proposed and developed is the only criminological theory from a non-Western country included in a widely adopted criminology textbook in the US. He has also proposed the ‘context-focused approach’ and pioneered the concept and paradigm of Asian criminology. Prof Liu has published more than 220 publications. In addition, he has received several prestigious international awards, including the 2016 Freda Adler Distinguished Scholar Award from ASC, and the 2018 G. O.W. Mueller Award for Distinguished Scholar from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS).
The Thorsten Sellin & Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck Award is a prestigious award presented by ASC and is awarded only to scholars who have made remarkable achievements in criminology outside the US. Prof Liu is the second Asian scholar to receive the award since its inception in 1974.
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