Jize Jiang

Jize Jiang is a Ph.D. candidate in Criminology, Law, and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He holds a law degree (LL.B.) with Distinction from China and a master degree (MA) in Criminology, Law, and Justice from UIC. He is interested in studying law, crime and punishment in comparative perspective. His research highlights broader social structural contexts and dynamic social processes that undergird law, crime and punishment. His current projects focus on how (im)migration influences crime and punishment in the United States and China. In particular, he is probing the transformations in American immigration control over the past decades and the emergence of crimmigration with special attention to how race, ethnicity, and politics fuel the change. His ongoing dissertation research examines why and how the bifurcation of immigration control in the United States—divided between punitive and integrative approaches—has developed over the past two decades as revealed in state and local level governance of immigrants. In addition, he has also explored how the Hukou status of criminal offenders shapes sentencing outcomes in China.