Doris Chu, Ph.D.,  Professor of Criminology

    Contact Information:
    Phone:  870.972.3276
   Office:  International Education Center IEC 211
   Email:  dchu@astate.edu

 

 

 

Education/Discipline:

State University of New York at Albany, Ph.D. in Criminal Justice

State University of New York at Albany, M.A. in Criminal Justice

Oklahoma City University, M.Ed. in Education

Specialties : Comparative Criminal Justice, Policing, Life-Course Explanations of Criminal Offending and Desistance, Religion and Desistance

Teaching : Introduction to Criminal Justice; Criminology; Police and Society, Social Statistics; Graduate seminar in Juvenile Delinquency; Graduate seminar in Women and Criminal Justice, Graduate seminar in Institutional and Community Corrections

Research

PUBLICATIONS

Refereed Journal Articles

          Chu, Doris. (forthcoming). “The Links between religiosity, childhood sexual abuse, and subsequent marijuana use: An empirical inquiry of a sample of female college students” International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. Online First, June 2011: doi: 10.1177/0306624X11413560

          Chu, Doris and John H. Song. (forthcoming). “A comparison of Chinese immigrants’ perceptions of the police in New York City and Toronto” Crime and Delinquency. Online First, April 2011:doi:10.1177/0011128711405008

             Chu, Doris and Ivan Y. Sun. (forthcoming). “Reactive v. proactive attitudes toward domestic violence: A comparison of Taiwanese male and female police officers” Crime and Delinquency. Online First, September 2010: doi:10.1177/0011128710372192

           Sung, Hung-En., and Doris Chu. (2011). “The impact of substance abuse treatment on legitimate employmentand income among probationers and parolees” Substance Use & Misuse, 46, 1523-1535. 

           Sun, Ivan Y., Doris Chu, and Hung E. Sung. (2011). “A cross-national analysis of the mediating effect of economic deprivation on crime” Asian Journal of Criminology, 6, 15-32.

           Gingerich, Terry, Doris Chu, and Charles Chang. (2011). “Public perceptions of police performance in Taiwan: A historical review (1945-2009)” Asian Politics & Policy, 3, (1), 49-68.

               Chu, Doris and Linda Hung. (2010). “Chinese immigrants’ attitudes toward the police in San Francisco” Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, 33, (4), 621-643.

               Sun, Ivan Y. and Doris Chu. (2010). “Who is better for handling domestic violence? A comparison between Taiwanese female and male officers” Journal of Criminal Justice, 38, 453-459.
            
               Chu, Doris and Hung-En Sung. (2009). “Racial differences in desistance from substance abuse: The impact of religious involvement on recovery” International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 53 (6), 696-716.

            Sun, Ivan Y. and Doris Chu. (2009). “Rural v. urban Policing: A study of Taiwanese officers' occupational attitudes” The Police Journal, 82, 222-246.    
       
            Sung, Hung-En., Doris Chu, Linda Richter, and Amy Shlosberg (2009). “Treatment philosophy and service delivery in a network of faith-based substance abuse treatment” Families in Society, 90 (4), 390-398.

                Sun, Ivan Y. and Doris Chu. (2008). “Gender difference in policing: An analysis of Taiwanese police’s attitudes” Police Practice and Research, 9 (5), 431-443.

                Chu, Doris and John H. Song. (2008). “Chinese immigrants’ perceptions of the police in Toronto, Canada” Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, 31 (4), 610-630.

            Sun, Ivan Y. and Doris Chu. (2008). “A cross-national analysis of women police’s attitudes” International Criminal Justice Review, 18 (1), 5-23.

            Brewer, Loretta and Doris Chu (2008). “Caregivers at risk: The implications of health disparities” Journal of Loss & Trauma: International Perspectives on Stress and Coping, 13 (2&3), 205-221.

                Sun, Ivan Y. and Doris Chu. (2008). “A comparison of occupational attitudes between Taiwanese and American police officers” International Journal of Police Sciences and Management, 10, 36-50.

                Chu, Doris (2007). “Religiosity and desistance from drug use.” Criminal Justice and Behavior, 34, 661-679.

                Chu, Doris and Ivan Y. Sun (2007). “A comparison of attitudinal differences between Taiwanese and American police supervisors” Police Quarterly, 10 (1), 63-86.

            Sun, Ivan Y., Hung E. Sung, and Doris Chu (2007). “Collateral gains from the military? A cross-national analysis of the armed forces-crime relationship” International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 51 (5), 599-614.

            Chu, Doris and Ivan Sun (2006). “Female officers’ job related attitudes: A comparative perspective of Taiwan and the United States” Women and Criminal Justice, 18 (1/2), 107-130.

               Gingerich, Terry and Doris Chu (2006). “A comparative perspective of community policing in Taiwan and Washington State” Asian Journal of Criminology, 1(2), 119-135.

            Sun, Ivan Y. and Doris Chu (2006). “Comparison of job-related attitudes of Taiwanese and American police officers” Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management, 29(2), 190-210.

                Chu, Doris, John H. Song, and John Dombrink (2005). “Chinese immigrants’ perceptions of the police in New York City” International Criminal Justice Review, 15(2), 101-114.

            Sung, Hung-En and Doris Chu (2003). “Does participation in the global economy reduce political corruption? An empirical inquiry.” International Journal of Comparative Criminology, 3(2), 94-118.

Monograph

            Chu, Doris (2008). Religiosity as Social Capital: An Explanation of Desistance from Crime. Saarbrucken, Germany: VDM Verlag Dr. Muller (ISBN: 978-3-639-07529-8).            

Edited Work

            Chu, Doris (Ed.) (2010). Crime and Punishment Around the World, Vol.3. Asia/Pacific. Gen. Ed. Graeme R. Newman. 4 vols. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO (ISBN: 978-0-313-35133-4). 

Book Chapters (*reprint of refereed journal article) and Encyclopedia Entries

            Chu, Doris (2011). “Broken windows theory of crime” In G. Ritzer & M. Ryan (ed.), The Concise Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

                Lee, Chia-Wen, Charles Chang, and Doris Chu. (2010). “Taiwan” in Doris Chu (Ed). Crime and Punishment Around the World, Vol.3. Asia/Pacific (pp. 222-232). Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.

             Sung, H.-E. & Doris Chu. (2008). Does participation in the world economy reduce political corruption? An empirical inquiry. In J. Winterdyck, P. Reichel, & H. R. Dammer (eds.), A Guided Reader to Research in Comparative Criminology and Criminal justice (pp. 235-260). Bochum, Germany: Universitätsverlag Brockmeyer.*

             Chu, Doris (2007). Entry: “Broken windows theory of crime” in the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, In G. Ritzer (ed.), (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing), p825-826.

Technical Report

                  Sung, Hung-En and Doris Chu (2008). The assemblies of God and substance abuse: The Teen Challenge program. Final report submitted to the Louisville Institute. New York: The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.

Book Review

             Chu, Doris (2008). Book review of My Brother’s Keeper: Faith-Based Units in Prisons by Jonathan Burnside, Nancy Loucks, Joanna R. Adler, and Gerry Rose. Cullompton, Devon, UK: Willan Publishing, 2006. In International Criminal Justice Review, 18, (2), 233-235.

 

GRANTS AWARDED

“Chinese immigrants’ perceptions of the police in Los Angeles” Amount: $4,790; Faculty Research Grant; Arkansas State University. Role: Principal Investigator. Awarded on March 18, 2011.

“Women police in a fast growing city-Dubai”; Amount: $6,878; Middle East Studies Grant; Arkansas State University. Role: Principal Investigator. Awarded on February 1, 2011.

“A Comparison of counselors’ perceptions between religious-based and secular drug treatment programs”; Amount: $1,000; Eleanor Lane International Travel Fund; Arkansas State University. Role: Principal Investigator. Awarded in November 11, 2010.

“Chinese communities and their police in San Francisco”; Amount: $3,300; Faculty Research Grant; Arkansas State University. Role: Principal Investigator. Awarded in March 2007.

“Female officers’ job related attitudes -A comparative perspective of Taiwan and the United States”; Amount: $1190; Eleanor Lane International Travel Fund (with matched fund); Arkansas State University. Role: Principal Investigator. Awarded in September 2005.

“Charismatic evangelicals’ war on drugs: The case of the assemblies of God”; Amount: $44,970 (#2005012, Hung-En Sung, Principal Investigator); Funded by the Louisville Institute. Role: Co-Principal Investigator. Awarded in May 2005.

“Chinese immigrants’ perception toward the police in New York City”; Amount: $2,500; Faculty Research Grant; Arkansas State University. Role: Principal Investigator. Awarded in July 2004.