Doris Chu

Doris Chu is a Professor of Criminology at Northumbria University. She previously held academic positions at National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan and Arkansas State University in the USA. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the State University of New York at Albany.

• Research Interests: Gender and criminal justice, comparative criminal justice systems, policing, religiosity and desistance from crime, and positive psychology applications in offender rehabilitation.
• Key Awards:
  • 2013 Richard J. Terrill Best Paper Award
  • 2011 Faculty Research Award (Arkansas State University)
  • 2019 Outstanding Faculty Research Award (National Chung Cheng University)
• Research Trends: Her recent publications focus on gender disparities in incarceration, pandemic impacts on policing, religiosity's role in desistance, and cross-national criminological analysis.