Xia Wang
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Phone: 602-496-2359
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411 N Central Ave Suite 600 Phoenix, AZ 85004
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Mail code: 4420Campus: Dtphx
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Xia Wang is a professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University. She is involved in studies of race and ethnicity and their effects on crime and criminal justice, and she is also interested in applying various quantitative methods to test and extend criminological theories. Her work has appeared in Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Justice Quarterly, and Law and Society Review.
- Ph.D. Criminology, Florida State University 2008.
- M.S. Applied Statistics, Florida State University 2005
- M.S. Criminology, Florida State University 2003
- B.A. Law, Beijing University, China 2001
- Race, ethnicity, immigration, crime, and justice;
- Criminological theory;
- Quantitative methods and applications.
Wang, Xia, Matthew Gricius, and Wenrui Zhang. 2023.“Self-Control and Delinquency in China: Examining the Mediating Role of Thoughtfully Reflective Decision Making.” Criminal Justice and Behavior, 50(10): 1456-1481. https://doi.org/10.1177/00938548231180632
Redner-Vera, Erica and Xia Wang. 2023. “Examining Cumulative Disadvantage against American Indian Defendants in Federal Courts.” Justice Quarterly, 40(2): 263-290. https://doi.org/10.1080/07418825.2022.2060283
Infante, Arynn A., Xia Wang, and Dustin Pardini. 2022. “The Development and Validation of a Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Latino Threat.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 48(9): 2245-2267. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2019.161653
Laura O. Beckman and Xia Wang. 2022. “Revisiting the Minority Threat Perspective: Examining the Main and Interactive Effects of Segregation on Sentencing Severity.” Justice Quarterly, 39(4), 745-771. https://doi.org/10.1080/07418825.2020.1854832
Khade, Natasha, Xia Wang, and Scott H. Decker. 2021. “Examining the Link between Childhood Physical Abuse and Risk for Violent Victimization in Youth and Young Adulthood in China.” Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 36(9-10), NP4891-NP4918. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260518794002
Wallace, Danielle and Xia Wang. 2020. “Does In-Prison Physical and Mental Health Impact Recidivism?” Accepted and Forthcoming at SSM-Population Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2020.100569
Snipes, Jeffrey B, Edward Maguire, and Xia Wang. 2020. “A Successive Threat Theory of Police Expenditures.” Crime & Delinquency, 66(1), 1507-1532. https://doi.org/10.1177/0011128719839360
Wang, Xia, Justin Ready, and Garth Davies. 2019. “Race, Ethnicity, and Perceived Minority Police Presence: Examining Perceptions of Criminal Injustice among Los Angeles Residents.” Law & Society Review, 53(3): 706-739. https://doi.org/10.1111/lasr.12423
Kramer, Kelsey and Xia Wang. 2019. “Assessing Cumulative Disadvantage against Minority Female Defendants in State Courts.” Justice Quarterly, 36(7): 1284-1313. https://doi.org/10.1080/07418825.2019.1685122
Kim, Byungbae, Xia Wang, and Hyunjung Cheon. 2019. “Examining the Impact of Ecological Contexts on Gender Disparity in Federal Sentencing.” Justice Quarterly, 36(3): 466-502. https://doi.org/10.1080/07418825.2018.1463388
Wang, Xia, Hyunjung Cheon, and Laura O. Beckman. 2019. “Assessing the Violent Offending and Violent Victimization Overlap among a Sample of Chinese Youth and Young Adults.” Criminal Justice and Behavior, 46(3): 374-394. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093854818806024
2021-2022, Principal Investigator, “A Meta-Analysis of Racial and Ethnic Context and Its Influence on Social Control.” Funded by the National Science Foundation (Total amount: $72,768).
2020-2022, Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Fei Sun; Co-PI: Zhenmei Zhang, Xia Wang), “Prevention of Financial Abuse among Elders Affected by Cognitive Decline: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Three Rural Communities.” Funded by the National Institute of Justice (Total amount: $595,961; Amount going to ASU: $21,000).
2019, Principal Investigator (Co-PI: Charles Katz), “Meta-Analysis of Studies on the Relationship between Immigration and Crime.” Funded by the Congressional Research Service ($10,000).
2015, Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Danielle Wallace; Co-PI: Xia Wang), “Relating Health to Recidivism: An Analysis of the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative (SVORI) Adult Male Sample.” Funded by the National Institute of Justice’s Data Resources Program ($39,999).
Courses
2025 Spring
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| CRJ 303 | Statistical Analysis |
| CRJ 605 | Quantitative Methods |
2024 Fall
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| CRJ 511 | Applied Data Analysis in Crim |
| CRJ 303 | Statistical Analysis |
2024 Spring
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| CRJ 504 | Statistical Tools/Criminal Jus |
| CRJ 524 | Theories of Punishment |
2023 Fall
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| CRJ 511 | Applied Data Analysis in Crim |
| CRJ 303 | Statistical Analysis |
2023 Spring
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| CRJ 303 | Statistical Analysis |
| CRJ 511 | Applied Data Analysis in Crim |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| CRJ 511 | Applied Data Analysis in Crim |
| CRJ 511 | Applied Data Analysis in Crim |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| CRJ 303 | Statistical Analysis |
| CRJ 511 | Applied Data Analysis in Crim |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| CRJ 511 | Applied Data Analysis in Crim |
| CRJ 511 | Applied Data Analysis in Crim |
2021 Spring
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| CRJ 511 | Applied Data Analysis in Crim |
| CRJ 524 | Seminar on Punishment &Society |
2020 Fall
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| CRJ 303 | Statistical Analysis |
| CRJ 511 | Applied Data Analysis in Crim |
2020 Spring
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| CRJ 605 | Quantitative Methods |
| CRJ 302 | Research Methods |
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Wang, Xia and Skyler Morgan. 2023. A Meta-Analysis of Racial and Ethnic Context and Its Influence on Social Control. The Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia, PA.
- Wang, Xia, Fei Sun, Zhenmei Zhang, Ha-Neul Kim, Brittany Tucker, Yuan Xiong, Carin Graves, and Christian Conyers. 2022. Addressing Financial Fraud and Abuse among Elders with Dementia: An Integrative Review. The Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, GA.
- Infante, Arynn, and Xia Wang. 2019. “Minority Threat and School Punishment: A Multilevel Test of the Effects of Racial/Ethnic Composition on Punitive School Sanctions.” The Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, CA.
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Wang, Xia. 2018. Division of White Collar & Corporate Crime Outstanding Publication Award Winners-Meet-Students Roundtable. The Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, GA.
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Erica Redner-Vera and Xia Wang. 2018. “Examining Cumulative Disadvantages in the Sentencing of American Indian Defendants.” The Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, GA.
- Wang, Xia, Gorazd Mesko, and Michael D. Reisig. 2017. “Support for Punitive Criminal Justice Policies: Assessing Three Competing Models and Their Interactions in Slovenia.” The Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia.
- Valadez, Mercedes and Xia Wang. 2017. “Citizenship, Legal Status, and Federal Sentencing Outcomes: Examining the Moderating Effects of Age, Gender, and Race/Ethnicity.” The Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia.
- Cheon, Hyunjung, Xia Wang, and Charles Katz. 2017. “Ethnic Composition of Neighborhood and Fear of Crime.” The Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia.
- Wang, Xia, Hyunjung Cheon, and Laura O. Beckman. 2017. “Assessing the Violent Offending and Violent Victimization Overlap among a Sample of Chinese Youth and Young Adults.” Stockholm Criminology Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden.
- Vickovic, Samuel G. and Xia Wang. 2016. “Chinese Culture and Parenting: Assessing the Cultural Invariance of Parenting Typologies.” The Annual Meeting of the Western Society of Criminology, Vancouver.
- Wang, Xia, Danielle Wallace, and Arynn Infante. 2016. “Race, Health, and Recidivism: Examining the Effects of Health Status and Health Care Needs on Recidivism for Black and White Ex-offenders.” The Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, New Orleans.
- Wallace, Danielle and Xia Wang. 2015. “An Examination of the Direct and Mediating Relationships between Health, Employment and Recidivism.” The Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Washington DC.
- Welch, Kelly and Xia Wang. 2015. “Middle Easterner Composition, Perceived Terrorism Threat, and Punitiveness.” The Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Washington DC.
- Wang, Xia, Hyunjung Cheon, and Laura O. Beckman. 2015. “An Appraisal of the Victim-Offender Overlap in China.” The Second Annual Conference on Geography of Crime in China, Guangzhou, China.
- Wang, Xia, Justin Ready, and Natalie Erin Todak. Examining the Effects of Perceived Minority Representation of Police Officers on Citizen Perceptions of Criminal Injustice. The 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology (Nov 2014).
- Wang, Xia and Byungbae Kim. Examining the Effects of Religious and Political Contexts on Gender-Based Sentencing Disparity in Federal Courts. The 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology (Nov 2013).
- Wang, Xia. Assessing the Differential Effects of Race and Ethnicity on Sentence Outcomes under Different Sentencing Systems. The Law Journal for Social Justice Symposium on Just/Justice: Valuing Fairness and Efficiency in the (Apr 2013).
- Wang, Xia and Laura Owen. Minority Threat and Social Control: Examining Punitive Attitudes toward Undocumented Immigrants. The 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology (Nov 2012).
- Wang, Xia. Examining the Effects of Latino Population Growth, Economic Condition, and Social and Economic Concerns on Perceived Criminal Threat from Undocumented Immigrants. The 2012 Racial Democracy, Crime, and Justice Network Workshop (Jul 2012).
- Mears, P. Daniel, Xia Wang, and William Bales. Changes in Employment Conditions and the Effects on Recidivism. The 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology (Nov 2011).
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2024, Outstanding Mentor Award, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
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2023, Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, ASU Faculty Women’s Association, Arizona State University.
- 2013, Outstanding Publication Award, The National White-Collar Crime Center and The White-Collar Crime Research Consortium.
- 2013, New Scholar Award, Division on People of Color and Crime, American Society of Criminology.
- American Society of Criminology
- Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
- Association of Chinese Criminology and Criminal Justice Scholars in the U.S.
- Racial Democracy, Crime and Justice-Network
- White-Collar Crime Research Consortium
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The Society for the Study of Social Problems
Ph.D. Dissertation Committee Chair
Laura O. Beckman (Completed in January 2018; associate professor at Shippensburg University)
Erica Redner-Vera (Completed in December 2018; assistant professor at San Diego State University)
Arynn Infante (Co-chair with Dustin Pardini) (Completed in April 2020; assistant professor at Portland State University)
Hyunjung Cheon (Completed in June 2021; assistant professor at University of Texas, El Paso)
Ph.D. Dissertation Committee Member
Mercedes Valadez (Completed in April, 2013)
Clair White (Completed in February, 2015)
Weston Morrow (Completed in June, 2015)
Byungbae Kim (Completed in July, 2015)
Mario Cano (Completed in August, 2015)
Qingting Hu (Completed in July, 2021)
Suzanne Coble (Completed in April, 2022)
Skyler Morgan (Completed in April, 2023)
Master’s Thesis Committee Chair
Wenrui Zhang (Completed in April, 2014)
Natasha Khade (Completed in June, 2016)
Kelsey Kramer (Completed in July, 2018)
Master’s Thesis Committee Member
Ryan Samuelson (Completed in May, 2009)
Brooks Louton (Completed in April, 2011)
Megan Mulrooney (Completed in April, 2014)
Callie Barstow (Completed in April, 2015)
Faith Gifford (Completed in June, 2015)
Ana Zuniga (Completed in June, 2015)
Victor Mora (Completed in June, 2015)
Matthew Gricius (Completed in April, 2016)
Logan Somers (Completed in April, 2016)
Jason Walker (Completed in June, 2016)
Richard Cordova (Completed in April, 2018)
Honors Thesis Committee Member
Alexandra Hewlett (Completed in April, 2012)
Megan Mulrooney (Completed in April, 2013)
- ASU College of Public Programs Day of Service, Attendee (2014 - Present)
- Outstanding Article Award Committee, American Society of Criminology, Member (2014 - Present)
- Comprehensive Exams Committee, Member (2014 - 2016)
- Executive Committee, Member (2014 - 2015)
- Promotion and Tenure Committee, Member (2014 - Present)
- Crime, Law, and Social Change, Reviewer (2014 - Present)
- Criminal Justice and Behavior, Reviewer (2014 - Present)
- Criminology, Reviewer (2014 - Present)
- Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Reviewer (2014 - Present)
- Justice Quarterly, Reviewer (2014 - Present)
- Criminal Justice and Behavior, Reviewer (2013 - Present)
- Criminology and Public Policy, Reviewer (2013 - Present)
- Sociological Quarterly, Reviewer (2013 - Present)
- Journal of Criminal Justice, Reviewer (2012 - Present)
- Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Reviewer (2012 - Present)
- Justice Quarterly, Reviewer (2012 - Present)
- Race and Justice, Reviewer (2012 - Present)
- National Center for the Victims of Crime’s "Advancing Victim-Centered Knowledge" Paper Contest, Judge (2011 - Present)
- Crime & Delinquency, Reviewer (2011 - Present)
- Criminology, Reviewer (2011 - Present)
- Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Reviewer (2011 - Present)
- Social Science Quarterly, Reviewer (2011 - Present)
- Graduate Committee, Member (2010 - 2013)
- Program Committee, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, Chair for the Fear of Crime and Perceived Risk section (2013 - 2014)
- Association of Chinese Criminology and Criminal Justice Scholars in the U.S., Treasurer (2012 - 2014)
- William M. Simon/Anderson Outstanding Paper Award committee, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Member (2013 - 2013)
- Program Committee, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, Chair for the Prisoner Reentry section (2012 - 2012)
- Obama Scholar Program, Mentor (2010 - 2011)
- Undergraduate Research Program Poster Competition, Judge (2011 - 2011)