Dr Zhao Shuhong is a professor at the College of Criminal Law of Beijing Normal University, China. His research focuses on a wide range of criminal law science, including criminal law, such as corpus delicti and its elements, criminal responsibility, stages of committing a crime, sentencing for serious crimes, and criminology, such as domestic violence and sexual violence. Over the past decade, he has received prestigious research grants, including a grant to study sentencing for serious crimes from the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation in Germany. He has published a considerable number of valuable academic articles in various prestigious journals in the field, which have become part of the teaching literature in China.