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Ivan Y. Sun is affiliated with the University of Delaware in the United States. Their research primarily concentrates on various aspects of social sciences, with a significant focus in sociology and political science as well as political science and international relations. Their work also extends to gender studies, health, and clinical psychology.

Their research covers several central topics, notably:

  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Policing Practices and Perceptions
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection

Among their recent publications are:

  • "Work-Family Conflicts, Stress, and Turnover Intention Among Hong Kong Police Officers Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic" (2021) published in Police Quarterly
  • "Physical health, school performance and delinquency: A comparative study of left-behind and non-left-behind children in rural China" (2020) published in Child Abuse & Neglect
  • "Explaining Stress during the COVID-19 Pandemic among Chinese Police Officers" (2021) published in Policing A Journal of Policy and Practice
  • "The Patterns and Influencing Factors of Help-Seeking Decisions among Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence in China" (2020) published in Journal of Family Violence
  • "Cooperation with Police in China: Surveillance Cameras, Neighborhood Efficacy and Policing" (2020) published in Social Science Quarterly

Ivan Y. Sun frequently collaborates with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Yuning Wu
  • Kai Lin
  • Sanja Kutnjak Ivković
  • Jia Xue
  • Shan Shen

The scholar has contributed extensively to several publication venues, with notable numbers in:

  • Policing An International Journal (13 publications)
  • Asian Journal of Criminology (8 publications)
  • Policing A Journal of Policy and Practice (6 publications)
  • Police Quarterly (4 publications)
  • Criminal Justice and Behavior (4 publications)

Best Publications

  • Race, Class or Neighborhood Context: Which Matters More in Measuring Satisfaction with Police?

    Yuning Wu;Ivan Y. Sun;Ruth A. Triplett

  • Racial Differences in Resolving Conflicts: A Comparison between Black and White Police Officers:

    Ivan Y. Sun;Brian K. Payne

  • Procedural justice during police-citizen encounters: The effects of process-based policing on citizen compliance and demeanor

    Mengyan Dai;James Frank;Ivan Sun

  • Citizen Trust in Police: The Case of China

    Yuning Wu;Ivan Y. Sun

  • The impact of situational factors, officer characteristics, and neighborhood context on police behavior: A multilevel analysis

    Ivan Y. Sun;Brian K. Payne;Yuning Wu

  • Neighborhood Characteristics and Crime: A Test of Sampson and Groves' Model of Social Disorganization

    Ivan Y. Sun;Ruth A. Triplett;Randy R. Gainey

  • Institutional Strength, Social Control and Neighborhood Crime Rates

    Ruth A. Triplett;Randy R. Gainey;Ivan Y. Sun

  • Policing in small town America: Dogs, drunks, disorder, and dysfunction

    Brian K. Payne;Bruce L. Berg;Ivan Y. Sun

  • Procedural justice, legitimacy, and public cooperation with police

    Ivan Y. Sun;Yuning Wu;Rong Hu;Ashley K. Farmer

  • Gender differences in police officers' attitudes: Assessing current empirical evidence

    Margarita Poteyeva;Ivan Y. Sun

  • Race, Immigration, and Policing: Chinese Immigrants’ Satisfaction with Police

    Yuning Wu;Ivan Y. Sun;Brad W. Smith

  • Barcoding reveals complex clonal dynamics of de novo transformed human mammary cells

    Long V. Nguyen;Davide Pellacani;Davide Pellacani;Sylvain Lefort;Nagarajan Kannan;Nagarajan Kannan

  • Policing domestic violence: Does officer gender matter?

    Ivan Y. Sun

  • One country, three populations: Trust in police among migrants, villagers, and urbanites in China

    Ivan Y. Sun;Rong Hu;Daniel F.K. Wong;Xuesong He

  • Social capital, political participation, and trust in the police in urban China

    Ivan Sun;Rong Hu;Yuning Wu

  • Chinese Policing in a Time of Transition, 1978-2008:

    Ivan Y. Sun;Yuning Wu

  • Police officers’ attitudes toward their role and work: A comparison of black and white officers

    Ivan Y. Sun

  • Public trust in the police in Taiwan: A test of instrumental and expressive models

    Ivan Yihshyan Sun;Susyan Jou;Charles Hou;Yao-chung Chang

  • Perceptions of police: an empirical study of Chinese college students

    Yuning Wu;Ivan Y. Sun

  • Bringing the field into the criminal justice classroom: Field trips, ride-alongs, and guest speakers

    Brian K. Payne;Melvina Sumter;Ivan Sun

  • Public Assessments of the Police in Rural and Urban China A Theoretical Extension and Empirical Investigation

    Ivan Y. Sun;Yuning Wu;Rong Hu

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Hirst
Martin Hirst University of British Columbia
Connie J. Eaves
Connie J. Eaves University of British Columbia
Samuel Aparicio
Samuel Aparicio University of British Columbia
Brian K. Payne
Brian K. Payne Old Dominion University
James Frank
James Frank University of Cincinnati

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