Dr. Hyeyoung Lim, an 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.
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, as well as studied policing while working at the Bill Blackwood Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas.