John Zheng Wang was born in Nanan County in Fujian Province, with his family originally from Wuhan City in Hubei Province, China. Having earned a doctoral degree in Criminology, he is now a tenured full professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at California State University-Long Beach. Dr. Wang has also been invited to serve as a visiting professor at both China People' s Public Security University and China Criminal Police College.Professor Wang graduated from Liaoning Normal University in 1982 with a major in English. Upon graduation, he started his teaching at China Criminal Police College where he taught courses in the English, Criminal Investigation, and Criminalisties Departments. During hiseight years of teaching, he managed to complete the in-service curriculum for teaching assistant courses at Shenyang Normal University and also finished his Master's degree in English at Liaoning University. During the same period of time, he worked with his colleagues and editedtwo dictionaries: English-Chinese Terminology of Criminal Investigation and Criminalisties and China Police Dictionary. Both dictionaries were the first books of their kind ever published in China. With his colleagues' assistance, he has translated and published three books: Practical Homicide Investigation, on, Handbook for Crime Scene Investigation Techniques.,and Comparative Criminology.John Wang was invited to be a visiting professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Northern Michigan University at the end of the 1 980s. While there, he received his second Master' s degree in Public Administration. He was admitted into the doctoral program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1991 and earned his doctoral degree in Criminology in 1 994. Dr. Wang then started teaching at Texas Southern University and Houston Police Academy.He served as co-chair of the Houston Mayor" s Asian Advisory Board, an education board member for the International Association of Asian Crime Investigators, and chairman of the Asian Advisory Board of the Long Beach Police Department. Professor Wang has received one award from the International Association of Asian Crime Investigators and four awards from the National Gang Crime Research Center for his research projects. Dr. Wang has provided his professional guidance and consulted with law enforcement agencies on a dozen Asian crime cases nationwide. He was certified a lifetime member of the International Association for Identification. His current research interests include transnational crime, high techcrime, and forensic science. Dr. Wang has published approximately twenty research papers in international journals and a book entitled Essentials of Forensic-Science.