Lim named president of Korean criminology society

Hyeyoung Lim, Ph.D., associate professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of Criminal Justice, has been named president of the Korean Society of Criminology in America.Hyeyoung Lim, Ph.D., associate professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of Criminal Justice, has been named president of the Korean Society of Criminology in America.

“I am sincerely honored to serve as the seventh president of the KOSCA, which is a young but fast-growing academic organization,” Lim said. “I appreciate all our members who have dedicated and contributed their time and effort to KOSCA’s growth and success.”

KOSCA is a nonprofit academic organization that pursues scholarly research and professional activities in Korea-related criminology and criminal justice areas, aiming to create a multidisciplinary society of academics, researchers, policymakers, administrators and practitioners. 

Lim is a criminal justice generalist by training and researches police decision-making, policy and program evaluation and organizational behavior. She has served as a member of the Special Crime Prevention Committee in Seoul, South Korea’s probation office, as well as studied policing, including curriculum, training evaluations and police use of force, while working at the Bill Blackwood Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas.