Hongming Cheng

Hongming Cheng is a Full Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Saskatchewan. Specializing in criminology, socio-legal studies, and comparative law, his research focuses on crimes of the powerful, policing dynamics, gender-based violence, and sociolegal systems in China and Canada. He holds an LL.M. from Birmingham Law School (UK) and a Ph.D. in Criminology from Simon Fraser University.

• Education: LL.M. (Birmingham Law School), Ph.D. (Simon Fraser University)
• Key roles: Visiting Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Harvard Edmond J. Safra Fellow, Oxford Academic Visitor

His research explores power structures through topics like corporate crime, state crime, land rights of Aboriginal and Chinese peasant communities, and media representations of deviance. Notable works include Financial Crime in China (2015) and influential articles on feminist repression and judicial attitudes toward cybercrime in China.

Recent publications (2023–2025) analyze gender dynamics in Chinese policing, judicial responses to data crime, and maternal agency among migrant workers. His work consistently bridges criminological theory with sociolegal analysis.

• Awards: Chevening Scholarship (1997–98), UN Expert Appointment (2010)
• Global engagements: Cambridge International Symposium Speaker, UN Congress Expert

Teaching includes criminology fundamentals and specialized courses on white-collar crime, youth justice, and global social control mechanisms.