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WU Zongxian's life and academic experience can be summarized as three "three": he lived in three places (born in Yongdeng County, Gansu Province, attended university in Xi'an, and spent half of his life in Beijing); Worked in three units (China University of Political Science and Law, Institute of Crime Prevention, Ministry of Justice, Beijing Normal University);  In contact with three universities (undergraduate study at Northwest University of Political Science and Law, master's and doctoral study at China University of Political Science and Law, and currently working at Beijing Normal University).

Wu Zongxian has a wide range of academic interests. He studied law for his bachelor’s degree and criminal law for his master's degree, and obtained a doctoral degree in criminology; During his studies in university and graduate school, besides studying law courses, he also read many books in fields such as psychology and sociology; He studied psychology at the Department of Psychology at Beijing Normal University from September 1986 to July 1987; During his teaching and research at the Criminal Psychology Department of China University of Political Science and Law, he studied and taught criminal psychology, and also delved into books related to abnormal psychology, psychiatry, and other related disciplines; He has carried out research in criminology for years, particularly in the history of Western criminology; During his time at the Crime Prevention Institute of the Ministry of Justice, he conducted systematic research on prison science and community correction. In addition, he attaches great importance to reading foreign language literature and translating foreign language books.

He emphasizes the combination of theoretical exploration and practical application in his academic career. In addition to long-term theoretical learning and research, as well as writing academic papers, during his more than ten years at the Crime Prevention Research Institute of the Ministry of Justice, he has inspected hundreds of various types of prisons in China, visited and inspected dozens of prisons and community correctional institutions in countries such as the UK, Canada, the US, Australia, Germany, Japan, and South Korea. He has gained a lot of emotional understanding of the practice of penalty execution and the operation of correctional institutions. At the same time, he has participated in a large number of high-level decision-making research and consulting work in government departments, including participating in the research on prison system reform conducted by the Ministry of Justice from 2000 to 2001; He participated in the research on community correction reform led by the central government and the Ministry of Justice in China, and participated in the drafting of the first community correction document issued by the central government, the "Notice on Carrying out Pilot Work of Community Correction" (jointly issued by the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Ministry of Public Security, and the Ministry of Justice on July 10, 2003). After returning to university to teach, he will continue to maintain an academic style that combines theoretical exploration with practical application.

He studied at the Fourth Middle School in Yongdeng County, Gansu Province from 1974 to 1978; Since 1979, he has studied at the Law Department of Northwest University of Political Science and Law, Postgraduate School of China University of Political Science and Law, and Criminal Law School of China University of Political Science and Law, and obtained LL.B., LL.M. and S.J.D. degrees
In 2000, he studied international human rights law at the Centre for Human Rights Law at the University of Nottingham in the UK
In May 2009, he studied at the Human Rights Basic Course Seminar at the Norwegian Human Rights Center
He conducted visiting research at the Max Planck Institute of Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, Germany from April to September 2002, March to August 2008, and July to August 2018
He conducted visiting research at Yale Law School in the United States from September to November 2007 and September to December 2012

From July 1986 to January 1992, teaching at the Law Department of China University of Political Science and Law as a lecturer in the Criminal Psychology Research Office
February 1992 to March 2006, he worked at the Crime Prevention Research Institute of the Ministry of Justice, serving as the Deputy Director of the Research Department, Director and Researcher of the Prison Science Research Office successively
Since April 2006, he has been serving as a Professor at the Law School and College for Criminal Law Science of Beijing Normal University

Criminology; Prison studies; Community correction; Legal Psychology (Criminal Psychology, etc.)