Doctoral Student Bios

Timo Zheng

Community Health, Health and Crime, Victimization (minority groups), Pure Theory of Law, Quantitative Law Study, Justice Policy Evaluations, Theoretical Statistics, Statistical Modelling, Penology and Recidivism

Timo is a doctoral student in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University. He received a Bachelor of Law at Shanghai University of Politics Science and Law in 2018 and a Master of Social Science at the University of Macau in 2020. He also passed the Chinese Bar exam. His research interests are Community Health, Health and Crime, Victimization (on minority groups), Pure Theory of Law, Quantitative Law Study, Justice Policy Evaluations, Theoretical Statistics, Statistical Modelling, Penology and Recidivism, and Mixed Research Methods. To deeper his knowledge of statistics and public health, he has also finished some graduate courses such as STAT 971: Probability Theory (statistics PhD advanced), STAT 652: Statistical Inference, and GCH 712: Introduction to Epidemiology.

Selected Publications

Journal Articles:

Gross Shader, C., Gill, C., Zheng, X., & Carleton, B. (2024). City government as super-controller: A systematic review of non-police mechanisms that city governments can apply to reduce crime at hot spots. Aggression and Violent Behavior,78,101957.

Report:

Charlotte Gill, Madeline McPherson, Xiaotian Zheng, & Claudia Gross Shader (2023): Rainier Beach Campus Safety Continuum. Report prepared for the National Institute of Justice.

Education

2018 - 2020 University of Macau, MSS

2014 - 2018 Shanghai University of Political Science and Law, LLB

Recent Presentations

Xiaotian Zheng (2025): Bridging the Gap in Criminological Stats Education: An Instructional Guide to Advanced Custom Results in R, the American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting 2023, D.C.

Xiaotian Zheng (2024): Understanding the Current Victimization of LGBTQ Group at the Community Level – Risk Factors and Post-victim Care, the American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting 2024, CA

Charlotte Gill, Madeline McPherson, & Xiaotian Zheng (2023): Uniting Campus and Community: Extending PBIS and Restorative Practices from Schools to Neighborhoods, the American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting 2023, PA

Xiaotian Zheng (2023, Poster): A Quantitative Research on the Statutory Sentencing Factors in China, the American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting 2023, PA