Dr. Ting Wang
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Criminology & Justice
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Email: t_wang5@uncg.edu
My research primarily centers on the intersection of gender and its influence on criminal offending, victimization, and the outcomes of criminal justice processing. This focus is anchored around the Mismatched Liberation Theory, which I proposed in 2021. In addition to my principal research area, I am currently expanding my work to include three new fields: demography, family studies, and the investigation of hate crimes against Asian Americans during the pandemic.
I have several ongoing projects:
International comparison of gendered offending: A cross-national test of mismatched liberation theory (Journal articles)
Chinese criminal justice system and its treatment of involved women and men (Journal articles)
Gendered impact of China's pandemic lockdowns on housework and childcare (Journal articles)
Victimization experiences of anti-Asian hate crimes in the Southern states: A geo-social study of Chinese restaurants (Journal articles & interactive maps)
The COVID-19 and its impact on government trust in China (Journal articles)
The new media use and its impact on government trust in China (Journal articles)
The influence of social network on consumers’ negative reactions toward corporate social advocacy: An egocentric network analysis (Journal articles)
Introduction to mismatched liberation theory and empirical tests (Book)
The Sage Encyclopedia of Crime and Gender (as the associated editor, Book)
Decoding Fertility Paradoxes in East Asia (Book & Journal articles)
Recent Publications
2025 Wang, T. Housework Reallocation between Genders and Generations during China’s Covid-19 Lockdowns: Patterns & Reasons. In J.A. Jacobs (ed.) Gender, Work and Family in Turbulent Times: COVID-19, Remote Work and Diversity. MDPI.
2025 Wang, T. The Lonely Generation: Unraveling China’s Population Crisis After the One-Child Policy, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. (Best Book Prize by Association for Asian Studies, book award nominations by American Sociological Association)
2024 Zhao, Y., Wang, T., & Ye, B. Pandemic Lockdowns and Trust in Local Government in China, Journal of Comparative Economics, Online First, DOI:10.1016/j.jce.2024.11.002
2024 Wang, T. & Dollar, C.B., The Gender-Crime Convergence across Race-Ethnicities: Testing Mismatched Liberation Theory with an Intersectional Lens, Women & Criminal Justice, 2024, Online First, 1–26. DOI:10.1080/08974454.2024.2422863
2024 Wang, T., Housework Reallocation Between Genders and Generations during China’s COVID-19 Lockdowns: Patterns & Reasons, Social Sciences, 2024, 13(1): 58. DOI:10.3390/socsci13010058
2023 Wang, T. & Dollar, C.B., Testing Mismatch Liberation Theory Across Race-Ethnicity and Gender. In B.L. Russell (Ed.) Perceptions of Female Offenders (Vol.2). Springer.
2021 Wang, T., Mismatched Liberation Theory: A Comparative Method to Explain Increasing Female Crime Share in the United States. Feminist Criminology, 2021, 16(5): 547–582. DOI: 10.1177/1557085121993210
2020 Wang, T., Succeed like A Man: Scarcity and Gendered Deviance and Crime under the One-child Policy in China. In C.M. Coates & M. Walker-Pickett (Ed.). Women and Minorities in Criminal Justice. Kendall Hunt.
2020 Wang, T., Fewer Women Doing More Crime: How has the One-child Policy Affected Female Crime in China? The Sociological Quarterly, 2020, 61(1): 87-106. DOI: 10.1080/00380253.2019.1581035
2019 Wang, T., & Stamatel, J.P. Cross-national differences in female offending and criminal justice processing, International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, 2019, 43(3): 219-239. DOI: 10.1080/01924036.2018.1558082
2018 Wang, T., Shi, J., & Lowan, Y. The role played by the social network on the risk of informal finance: A study based on theoretical and empirical analyses of social network structure, Journal of Zhejiang University (Humanities and Social Sciences), 2018, 48(1): 91. DOI:10.3785/j.issn.1008-942X.CN33-6000/C.2016.05.123