Ko-lin Chin is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University-Newark. He received his Ph.D in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Chin is the author of Chinese Subculture and Criminality: Non-traditional Crime Groups in America (Greenwood Press, 1990), Chinatown Gangs: Extortion, Enterprise, & Ethnicity (Oxford University Press, 1996), Smuggled Chinese: Clandestine Immigration to the United States (Temple University Press, 1999) and co-editor of Handbook of Organized Crime in the United States (Greenwood Press, 1994). Currently, he is writing a book on the political-criminal nexus in Taiwan and conducting a study on the social organization of human smuggling.
