Global Research Team
Research Professor of Criminology
Baylor University, Sociology
Sung Joon Jang is Research Professor of Criminology and co-director of the Program on Prosocial Behavior at Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion. His research examines the effects of religion, family, school, and peers on crime and delinquency, and has been published across journals in sociology, criminology, psychology, and social work. He is co-principal investigator of the Global Flourishing Study and founding President of the Korean Society of Criminology in America.
A cross-national analysis of childhood predictors of daily smoking in adulthood
Communications Medicine · 2025 · First author
A cross-national analysis of demographic variation in daily smoking across 22 countries
Scientific Reports · 2025 · First author
Analysis of demographic variation and childhood correlates of financial well-being across 22 countries
Nature Human Behaviour · 2025
Analytic methodology for childhood predictor analyses for wave 1 of the Global Flourishing Study
BMC Global and Public Health · 2025
Analytic methodology for demographic variation analyses for wave 1 of the global flourishing study
BMC Global and Public Health · 2025
Demographic variation in symptoms of depression and anxiety across 22 Global Flourishing Study countries
Communications Medicine · 2026
Demographic variation in weekly alcohol use across countries in the Global Flourishing Study
Communications Medicine · 2026
The Global Flourishing Study: Study Profile and Initial Results on Flourishing
Nature Mental Health · 2025