Contact Information: Tel: (852) 2696 1050 Fax: (852) 3163 4439 Email: markgaylord@cuhk.edu.hk Office: Room 309, 3rd Floor, School of Law Mong Man Wai Building The Chinese University of Hong Kong Sha Tin, NT, Hong Kong SAR

Dr. GAYLORD Mark S.

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Dr. Gaylord is a sociologist specializing in crime, law, and social change. From 1987 to 1999 he taught criminology, criminal justice, and sociology of law at City University of Hong Kong where he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Social Studies. During those years he also taught part-time for the University of Hong Kong (M. Soc. Sc., Criminology) and Leicester University (M.A., Public Order). More recently he has been an external examiner and course developer for the Law Enforcement and Security Management Program at the Open University of Hong Kong.

Appointments

• Dean of Liberal Arts, North Central Michigan College, USA, 2000-06
• Associate Professor, City University of Hong Kong, 1987-99
• Chief-of-Party and Research Sociologist, USAID, Indonesia, 1984-86
• Professor, Culver-Stockton College, USA, 1977-87
• Lecturer, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia, 1972-75

• Hong Kong criminal justice system
• Cross-border crime and legal jurisdiction in post-colonial Hong Kong
• Financial crime: Insider trading, money laundering, corporate bribery
• Economic restructuring and corruption in China

Representative Publications

Introduction to the Hong Kong Criminal Justice System, Hong Kong University Press, 1994. Revised edition forthcoming.

Drugs, Law and the State, Transaction Books, 1992.

The Criminology of Edwin Sutherland, Transaction Books, 1988. Paperback edition published in 1994.

"Cross-Border Crime and Legal Jurisdiction in Post-Colonial Hong Kong," Crime, Law and Social Change 31(1):31-48, 1999.

"City of Secrets: Drugs, Money and the Law in Hong Kong," Crime, Law and Social Change 28(2):91-110, 1997.

"The Criminalization of 'Official Profiteering': Law-Making in the People’s Republic of China," International Journal of the Sociology of Law 25(2):117-134, 1997.

"Bound for the Golden Mountain: The Social Organization of Chinese Alien Smuggling," Crime, Law and Social Change 25(1):1-16, 1996.

"Colonial Policing and the Demise of British Rule in Hong Kong," International Journal of the Sociology of Law 23(1):23-43, 1995.

"Riding the Underground Dragon: Crime Control and Public Order on Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway," British Journal of Criminology 31:15-26, 1991.

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