Bill Hebenton
Eclectic research interests, but over the years my research can be categorised broadly around two areas: first, comparative criminology, mainly China, Greater China/Taiwan; second, demystifying the 'smoke and mirrors' of contemporary crime and criminal justice, including sexual crime, sentencing and 'enforcement' of judicial penalties. I have successfully supervised over a dozen Manchester Ph.D. students.
As well as my previous teaching and research in the Criminology Department where I now have an Honorary appointment, I have been a research affiliate and member of the steering committee of the University's Manchester China Institute. Outside of the UK, my main research networks have included: the Asian Criminological Society and the Association of Chinese Criminology and Criminal Justice in the US (where I was previously a founding Board member in 2010, Newsletter Editor of ACCCJUS and eventually President of ACCCJUS 2018-2020). The ACCCJUS annual general meeting takes place during the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology.
In autumn 2013, I was appointed Series Editor of the new Palgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Asia (my co editors are Professors Jou (National Taipei University, Taiwan) and Chang (Deakin University, Australia)). This is intended as a flagship book series by Palgrave-Macmillan which aims to establish a strong publishing home for criminological research on and in the Asian region. We have some 20 titles in the Series including, 'Offending Women in Contemporary China' (Anqi Shen); 'Policing in Hong Kong' (KC Wong); 'Victim-Offender Reconciliation in the People's Republic of China and Taiwan' (R Berti); 'Cloaking White Collar Crime in Hong Kong's Property Sector' (Y. Fun); and ‘Bullying and Violence in South Korea’ (T Bax) . Others include 'Popular Participation in Japanese Criminal Justice' (Watson); 'Women in the Hong Kong Police Force' (Ho); and 'Women Judges in Contemporary China' (Shen); 'Governance, Social Control and Legal Reform in China: community Sanctions and Measures' (Qi Chen); 'Crime in Japan' (Laura Bui & David Farrington); 'Transnational Drug Trafficking Across the Vietnam-Laos Border' (Luong); 'Children and Crime in India' (Parackal & Panicker); and in 2020, 'The Culture of Capital Punishment in Japan' (David Johnson); 'Towards a Malaysian Criminology' (M. Quraishi). In 2022 'Life Imprisonment in Asia', edited by D van Zyl Smit, C. Appleton, and Giao Vucong; and ten years on, we've added David T Johnson's 'Japan's Prosecution Review Commission' to our series in 2023 - see https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-19373-6
I regularly review proposals for major publishers on crime and criminal justice in Greater China/Asia and have previously served on editorial boards of several academic journals. I was delighted to co-edit (with Cao Liqun, Lu Hong and Jonathan Lee) a special issue of the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology on 'Crime, Criminology and Criminal Justice in Greater China' published online in 2021. With Doris Chu ((Taiwan) and Albert Toh (USA) I have also been undertaking some macro level comparative analyses of gender (in)equality indicators and female offending and incarceration and with findings recently published. My latest journal publication, with Cliff Bacon and Leo McCann, considers the state of police (re)-professionalisation in England and Wales.
Currently, with Terry Thomas, I am finalising a research paper which makes use of archive and primary sources, re-visiting the academic knowledge generated by individual scholars of the period of the 1970s, and early 80s on sexuality, age and harm; work now itself seen as morally suspect by some. The paper examines the legacy of academic engagement, including how such scholarship was initially received and challenged; and how in the modern age of new social media those same academics are being ‘called to account’ anew both for their contributions in the past and in their current ‘suspect’ and ‘spoiled’ identities. In a wider sense the paper necessarily raises the vexed matter of ‘eras’ in knowledge production and raises for interrogation the associated concept of ‘knowledge accumulation’ in social science.
Phone: +44 (0)7803903739
Address: University of Manchester
Criminology Department
School of Social Sciences
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL
United Kingdom
As well as my previous teaching and research in the Criminology Department where I now have an Honorary appointment, I have been a research affiliate and member of the steering committee of the University's Manchester China Institute. Outside of the UK, my main research networks have included: the Asian Criminological Society and the Association of Chinese Criminology and Criminal Justice in the US (where I was previously a founding Board member in 2010, Newsletter Editor of ACCCJUS and eventually President of ACCCJUS 2018-2020). The ACCCJUS annual general meeting takes place during the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology.
In autumn 2013, I was appointed Series Editor of the new Palgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Asia (my co editors are Professors Jou (National Taipei University, Taiwan) and Chang (Deakin University, Australia)). This is intended as a flagship book series by Palgrave-Macmillan which aims to establish a strong publishing home for criminological research on and in the Asian region. We have some 20 titles in the Series including, 'Offending Women in Contemporary China' (Anqi Shen); 'Policing in Hong Kong' (KC Wong); 'Victim-Offender Reconciliation in the People's Republic of China and Taiwan' (R Berti); 'Cloaking White Collar Crime in Hong Kong's Property Sector' (Y. Fun); and ‘Bullying and Violence in South Korea’ (T Bax) . Others include 'Popular Participation in Japanese Criminal Justice' (Watson); 'Women in the Hong Kong Police Force' (Ho); and 'Women Judges in Contemporary China' (Shen); 'Governance, Social Control and Legal Reform in China: community Sanctions and Measures' (Qi Chen); 'Crime in Japan' (Laura Bui & David Farrington); 'Transnational Drug Trafficking Across the Vietnam-Laos Border' (Luong); 'Children and Crime in India' (Parackal & Panicker); and in 2020, 'The Culture of Capital Punishment in Japan' (David Johnson); 'Towards a Malaysian Criminology' (M. Quraishi). In 2022 'Life Imprisonment in Asia', edited by D van Zyl Smit, C. Appleton, and Giao Vucong; and ten years on, we've added David T Johnson's 'Japan's Prosecution Review Commission' to our series in 2023 - see https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-19373-6
I regularly review proposals for major publishers on crime and criminal justice in Greater China/Asia and have previously served on editorial boards of several academic journals. I was delighted to co-edit (with Cao Liqun, Lu Hong and Jonathan Lee) a special issue of the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology on 'Crime, Criminology and Criminal Justice in Greater China' published online in 2021. With Doris Chu ((Taiwan) and Albert Toh (USA) I have also been undertaking some macro level comparative analyses of gender (in)equality indicators and female offending and incarceration and with findings recently published. My latest journal publication, with Cliff Bacon and Leo McCann, considers the state of police (re)-professionalisation in England and Wales.
Currently, with Terry Thomas, I am finalising a research paper which makes use of archive and primary sources, re-visiting the academic knowledge generated by individual scholars of the period of the 1970s, and early 80s on sexuality, age and harm; work now itself seen as morally suspect by some. The paper examines the legacy of academic engagement, including how such scholarship was initially received and challenged; and how in the modern age of new social media those same academics are being ‘called to account’ anew both for their contributions in the past and in their current ‘suspect’ and ‘spoiled’ identities. In a wider sense the paper necessarily raises the vexed matter of ‘eras’ in knowledge production and raises for interrogation the associated concept of ‘knowledge accumulation’ in social science.
Phone: +44 (0)7803903739
Address: University of Manchester
Criminology Department
School of Social Sciences
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL
United Kingdom
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While insurance brings societal benefits it can also bring significant detriments related to its moral hazards. In recent years, for example, concerns have grown that much insurance held by individuals may be inappropriate for their needs or obtained due to misleading information provided by the seller. Such mis-selling of insurance has many sources, including the complexity of insurance products, the limited understanding of some consumers, the bundling of insurance with other products, pecuniary incentives, malevolent behaviour or the culture of the entire firm. Neo-liberal approaches to consumer protection encourage consumers to accept responsibility for their insurance decisions and to inform and educate themselves accordingly. Others argue that this is insufficient and in addition, consumer protection and conduct of business regulation should be strengthened.
Insurance fraud, which exists on a continuum, is also detrimental to society. Although most estimates show it is widespread, its actual prevalence is unclear, in part because much insurance fraud goes undetected. Recent developments in combating fraud include high-level co-ordination of detection activity, the use of predictive analytics, revised guidelines on sentencing and the use of moral cues to discourage false claims. More generally, studies across varied cultural contexts illustrate how moral hazards embedded in the social organisation of insurance lead to various kinds of immoral risky behaviour by those insured, insurance companies, and their employees. This recognition that moral risks are not limited to the insured person is key to understanding the insurance fraud-moral hazard overlap and how it plays out in the wider moral economy of insurance.
http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935383.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199935383-e-72
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415500401/