I-Ching Jen

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Online neighborhoods, place-based criminology, collective efficacy, fear of crime

I-Ching Jen is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University. She received her MS in Criminology from National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan. Her research focuses on place-based criminology and has studied crime concentrations, fear of crime, and crime displacement. She is studying the online collective efficacy and online communities for her doctoral dissertation, and expects to graduate in Spring 2026.

I-Ching has taught one course independently in CLS: Crime and Place. She currently works as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the 2025-2026 AY.

I-Ching has presented her work at academic conferences on topics such as crime concentrations, disorder perception, clinician-dispatch co-responder model, and geographical analysis and displacement.

Education

M.A. (Criminology), National Chung Cheng University

B.S. (Psychology), Kaohsiung Medical University