Autor: Xiaoyu Yuan

Xiaoyu Yuan has a Ph D in criminology from KU Leuven University (Belgium). She was born in Jiangsu Province at the People’s Republic of China, and has worked as a doctoral researcher at the research line Restorative Justice & Victimology from June 2012 to March 2016 at LINC (Leuven Institute of Criminology, KU Leuven). Before that, she obtained her master’s degree in criminal law from China University of Political Science and Law (Beijing) in 2011, and bachelor’s degree in law from Southwest University of Political Science and Law (Chongqing) in 2008. She also holds a Chinese bar license since 2008. She is now an Assistant Professor at Eastern China Institute of Political Science and Law.  Her current research interests include restorative justice, juvenile justice, Chinese criminal sentencing, dispute resolution, and qualitative methods.