Professor Anqi Shen

Professor

School: Northumbria School of Law

Anqi Shen is Professor of Law at Northumbria Law School. She is Adjunct Professor with the School of Law at Nanjing University and Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, and Fellow of Jiangsu Research Centre of the Development of the Regional Rule of Law in China. She has held visiting posts at the Australian National University, Zhejiang Police College and Nanjing Normal University. Shen is currently on the Editorial Board of Women and Criminal Justice (Taylor & Francis) and of Trends in Organised Crime (Springer).

Shen’s research interests include sentencing, policing, organised crime (including human trafficking, counterfeiting, gangs, sex management and fraud), youth justice, gender and crime, the legal profession, migration and crime, and gender and law enforcement. She is author of Offending Women in Contemporary China: Gender and pathways into crime (Palgrave, 2015), of Women Judges in Contemporary China: Gender, judging and living (Palgrave, 2017), of Internal Migration, Crime and Punishment in Contemporary China (Springer, 2018) and of Women Police in Contemporary China: Gender and policing (Routledge, 2022), and co-author of Fake Goods, Real Money: The counterfeiting business and its financial management (Policy Press, 2018). Her work also appears in journals in Europe, Northern America, the Asian-Pacific Region and China.

Before joining Northumbria University, Shen was Reader in Law at Teesside University where she was a member of the REF Steering Group and UoA Lead for Law. Prior to coming to Britain, she was a police officer and subsequently a practising lawyer in China.

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3665-5450

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Key Publications

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Human Trafficking: Challenges and Innovative Approaches for Research, Policy and Practice, Shen, A., Zhang, S. 1 Feb 2026, In: The Journal of Criminal Law
Research Note - Exploring the Connection Between Organizational Justice and Life Satisfaction Among Chinese Police Officers, Liu, J., Lambert, E., Jiang, S., Shen, A., Tuo, Z. 27 Jan 2026, In: American Behavioral Scientist
Responses to Trafficking in Women through a Restorative Justice Lens: A Case Study from China, Shen, A. 1 Feb 2026, In: The Journal of Criminal Law
Gender, Sexuality and the Law: Policing, Shen, A. 17 Aug 2025, Elgar Concise Encyclopaedia of Gender, Sexuality and the Law, Edward Elgar
The Regulation of Prostitution in China: Law in the Everyday Lives of Sex Workers, Police Officers, and Public Health Officials Margaret L. Boittin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 430 pp. £105.00 (hbk). ISBN 9781107179226, Shen, A. Jun 2025, In: China Quarterly
Women in the Judicial Profession in China: The gendered organisation, social landscape and judging, Shen, A. 7 Aug 2025, Handbook on Gender and the Legal Profession, Edward Elgar
Work–family conflict and job burnout among police officers in China, Lambert, E., Liu, J., Shen, A., Solinas-Saunders, M., Jiang, S., Tuo, Z. 4 Aug 2025, In: Psychiatry, Psychology and Law
Introduction to the Special Issue on Mental Health in Prisons, Shen, A., Jiang, S. 1 Aug 2024, In: The Journal of Criminal Law
Mental Health and Yoga in Prisons, Shen, A. 1 Aug 2024, In: The Journal of Criminal Law
Women’s Motivations for Becoming a Police Officer: A Chinese case study on women in policing, Shen, A. 1 Nov 2024, In: Women and Criminal Justice