DEPT OF SOCIOLOGY
Researcher
: Bakken B |
Project Title: |
Crime and
Punishment in |
Investigator(s): |
Bakken B |
Department: |
Sociology |
Source(s) of Funding: |
Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research |
Start Date: |
04/2007 |
Abstract: |
According to the United Nations’
cross-cultural International Crime Victimization Survey of approximately
sixty countries, among all of the countries’ residents the large
representative sample of Chinese respondents surveyed were the most likely to
favour harsh punishment (Zvekic and Alvazzi Del Frate 1995, Mayhew and van
Kesteren, 2003). It has also been observed that |
List of Research Outputs |
Bakken
B., Chinese Crime and Punishment 1980-2020:
Moral Panics, Brutalization, and Demography. Looking back and Making
Forecasts, International Conference: Crime, Law & Justice in Chinese
Societies: Global Challenges & Local Responses, Jointly organized by the
School, of Law and Department of Sociology, The |
Bakken B., Crime and Punishment in China towards 2020: A Scenario , Australian Association of Chinese Studies (AACA) conference, Griffith University, Brisbane June 28, 2007 and also meeting on the Australian Chinese Law Network in Brisbane and Melbourne. 2007. |
Bakken
B., Crimen y castigo en |
Bakken
B., Norms of Harshness: Comparative
Perspectives on the Death Penaltty in |
Bakken
B., In: Astrid Maier (ed), Die Todesstrafe in
der VR China (The Death Penalty in the People's Republic of China), The
China Journal. |
Researcher
: Broadhurst RG |
List of Research Outputs |
Lee
K.W., Broadhurst R.G. and Beh S.L., Triad-related Homicides in |
Researcher
: Chiu WK |
List of Research Outputs |
Chiu W.K., A Game Theory Approach to Analyzing Drug Law Enforcement by Hong
Kong Customs, poster presentation, Research Postgraduate Conference, 2007,
Faculty of Social Science, The Hong Kong University. Hong Kong, The |
Chiu W.K., An Analysis of the Effects of the Interception of Communications
and Surveillance Ordinance on Investigative Practices of Law Enforcement
Agencies in Hong Kong, Crime, Law & Justice in Chinese Societies,
Jointly organized by the School of Law and Department of Sociology, The
Chinese University of Hong Kong . Hong Kong, The |
Chiu W.K., Customs and Excise Department, Staff Suggestions Scheme, Commendation Certificate. 2007. |
Chiu W.K., Development of a Smart Teens Project, Customs and Excise Department, Staff Suggestions Scheme, Appreciation Certificate. 2007. |
Chiu W.K., Enhanced Notice to Persons in Custody, Customs and Excise Department, Staff Suggestions Scheme, Appreciation Certificate. 2007. |
Project Title: |
Triad involvement in economic organised crime in Hong Kong |
Investigator(s): |
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Department: |
Sociology |
Source(s) of Funding: |
Small Project Funding |
Start Date: |
11/2003 |
Abstract: |
To describe the trends of credit card fraud, pirated compact discs and currency counterfeiting in Hong Kong in the last decade; to analyse how these three counterfeiting products are manufactured and distributed; to assess the role of triads in the operation of these three types of economic organised crime; to exam how to combat economic organised crime from legal, law enforcement, private sector, and community perspectives. |
Project Title: |
Crime in Campus
in the |
Investigator(s): |
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Department: |
Sociology |
Source(s) of Funding: |
Wu Jieh-Yee Research Fund |
Start Date: |
01/2005 |
Abstract: |
There are 3 main objectives of this
study. The first objective is to examine the prevalence and nature of crime
in both study and residential campus in the |
Project Title: |
Crime Mapping of One-woman Brothels in North Point |
Investigator(s): |
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Department: |
Sociology |
Source(s) of Funding: |
Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research |
Start Date: |
02/2005 |
Abstract: |
The aim of this research is to use crime
mapping technology to analyse the geographical distribution of the one woman
brothel in |
List of Research Outputs |
Chu Y.K. and Ho K.K., CID and Marine Police, Off Beat. Hong Kong Police, 2006, 830: 8. |
Chu
Y.K., Chinese Human Smuggling as a Business, The
12th |
Chu Y.K., Critical Moments: 18 Youth Growth Stories in Tin Shui Wai, Hong Kong, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hong Kong, 2007. |
Chu
Y.K. and Ho K.K., |
Chu
Y.K. and Tsang
S.K.M., Survey Findings on Youth and Parent-Child Relationship in Tin
Shui Wai , In: Faculty of Social Sciences of The University of Hong Kong and
Social Services Department of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hong Kong , 'Youth
Development in New Towns in Chinese Societies' Regional Conference. |
Chu
Y.K., Survey Findings on Youths in Tin Shui
Wai, Tin Shui Wai Youth Development Roundtable Seminar. Hong Kong,
Faculty of Social Sciences of The |
Chu
Y.K., The Model of Police Integration in the
River Peral Delta: The Hong Kong Perspective, |
Chu
Y.K., Triad Involvement in the Sex Service
Industry in Hong Kong and its Impacts on Southeast Asia, Investigating the
Grey Areas of the Chinese Communities in |
Chu
Y.K., Youth Violence in Tin Shui Wai in |
Ho
K.K. and Chu Y.K.,
Comments on Policing Labour Day Rally in Macau (Part 1), |
Ho
K.K. and Chu Y.K.,
Comments on Policing Labour Day Rally in Macau (Part 2), |
Ho K.K. and Chu Y.K., The Changing Roles of Women Officers in Public Order Policing in Hong Kong , The 7th Annual Meeting of Asian Association of Police Studies. 9/2006, Asian Association of Police Studies, 2006. |
Tsang S.K.M., Chu Y.K. and Lam C.W., Transcending Social Woes: Risks And Protective Resources Perceived By Adolescents In Tin Shui Wai, 5th International Conference On Social Work Health And Mental Health. 2006. |
List of Research Outputs |
Chu Y.W., Book Review: ICTs and Indian Economic Development, edited by Ashwani Saith and M. Vijayabaskar, Information, Communication, and Society. 2006, 9(6): 804-806. |
Chu
Y.W., Chinese Business Networks and Chinese
Entrepreneurship: myths and partial truths, Social Transformations in
Chinese Societies. The |
Chu Y.W., Connecting China to the World: Continuities and Changes in Hong Kong's economic policy and practice since 1997, "Hong Kong Workshop," Organized by the Asia Institute, University of Toronto, Canada. . 2007. |
Chu
Y.W., Land Rights Protests in Mainland |
Chu
Y.W., Northeast Asian Studies in Hong Kong, Roundtable
on 'Asian Studies in Asia: themes and approaches', Second Annual Conference
of the Asian Studies Association of |
Researcher
: Evans GRJ |
List of Research Outputs |
Evans
G.R.J., “Lao Peasant Studies”, In: Y.
Goudineau and M. Lorrillard, Recherches nouvelles sur le |
Evans
G.R.J., A Short History of Laos (in Lao
language), |
Evans
G.R.J., A Short History of |
Evans
G.R.J., The Southern Drift of the Chinese,
In: |
Researcher
: Ho KK |
List of Research Outputs |
Chu Y.K. and Ho K.K., CID and Marine Police, Off Beat. Hong Kong Police, 2006, 830: 8. |
Chu
Y.K. and Ho K.K., |
Ho K.K.
and Chu Y.K., Comments on Policing
Labour Day Rally in Macau (Part 1), |
Ho K.K.
and Chu Y.K., Comments on Policing
Labour Day Rally in Macau (Part 2), |
Ho K.K. and Chu Y.K., The Changing Roles of Women Officers in Public Order Policing in Hong Kong , The 7th Annual Meeting of Asian Association of Police Studies. 9/2006, Asian Association of Police Studies, 2006. |
List of Research Outputs |
Islam M.N., “Traditional Medicine and Health Commodification: Impact of
Globalization on Ayurvedic Medicine”, Hong Kong Sociological Association
8th Annual Conference, |
Kuah-Pearce
K.E. and Islam M.N.,
“Traditional Medicine and Health Commodification: Impact of Globalization on
Ayurvedic Medicine”, |
Researcher
: Kuah KE |
Project Title: |
Chinese women and their network capital: Chinese women entrepreneurs and their entrepreneurial culture in the Pan Pearl River Delta Region |
Investigator(s): |
Kuah-Pearce KE |
Department: |
Sociology |
Source(s) of Funding: |
Small Project Funding |
Start Date: |
11/2004 |
Completion Date: |
10/2006 |
Abstract: |
To explore how Chinese women create and use their social and network capital to establish an entrepreneurial culture and become successful entrepreneurs and professionals in the Pan Pearl River Delta Region. |
Project Title: |
State, society and religious philanthropy in the Chinese diaspora: a comparison of buddhist philanthropic culture in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan |
Investigator(s): |
Kuah-Pearce KE |
Department: |
Sociology |
Source(s) of Funding: |
Competitive Earmarked Research Grants (CERG) |
Start Date: |
01/2007 |
Abstract: |
(1) The first is to describe and analyse
the tripartite relationship among Buddhism, State and Society in the
formation of a religious charity/ philanthropic culture in contemporary |
Researcher
: Kuah-Pearce KE |
Project Title: |
Chinese women and their network capital: Chinese women entrepreneurs and their entrepreneurial culture in the Pan Pearl River Delta Region |
Investigator(s): |
Kuah-Pearce KE |
Department: |
Sociology |
Source(s) of Funding: |
Small Project Funding |
Start Date: |
11/2004 |
Completion Date: |
10/2006 |
Abstract: |
To explore how Chinese women create and use their social and network capital to establish an entrepreneurial culture and become successful entrepreneurs and professionals in the Pan Pearl River Delta Region. |
Project Title: |
State, society and religious philanthropy in the Chinese diaspora: a comparison of buddhist philanthropic culture in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan |
Investigator(s): |
Kuah-Pearce KE |
Department: |
Sociology |
Source(s) of Funding: |
Competitive Earmarked Research Grants (CERG) |
Start Date: |
01/2007 |
Abstract: |
(1) The first is to describe and analyse
the tripartite relationship among Buddhism, State and Society in the
formation of a religious charity/ philanthropic culture in contemporary |
List of Research Outputs |
Kuah-Pearce
K.E., In: Kuah-Pearce K.E., Asian Studies
Review Journal (Guest editor of the issue on "Locating the Self in the
Chinese Diaspora). |
Kuah-Pearce
K.E., Emerging Cosmopolitanism:
Conceptualising Chinese Migration and Diaspora in Global Space, 10th
Biennial Conference of the Chinese Studies Association of |
Kuah-Pearce
K.E., Locating the Self in the Chinese
Diaspora: Introductory Remarks, Asian Studies Review Journal, . |
Kuah-Pearce
K.E., Transnational Self in the Chinese
Diaspora: A Conceptual Framework, Asian Studies Review Journal. |
Kuah-Pearce
K.E. and Gao C., “Kinship Obligation, Economic
Calculating and Entrepreneurship: the Case of Migrant Entrepreneurs in
Suburban |
Kuah-Pearce
K.E. and Islam M.N., “Traditional Medicine
and Health Commodification: Impact of Globalization on Ayurvedic Medicine”, |
Researcher
: Laidler KA |
Project Title: |
"Ice"
in |
Investigator(s): |
Laidler KA |
Department: |
Sociology |
Source(s) of Funding: |
Vice-Chancellor's Office - General Award |
Start Date: |
06/1999 |
Abstract: |
To study "Ice" in |
Project Title: |
Reducing |
Investigator(s): |
Laidler KA |
Department: |
Sociology |
Source(s) of Funding: |
Small Project Funding |
Start Date: |
11/2003 |
Abstract: |
To evaluate the impact of a community intervention program on serious young offenders in the NTN over a one-year period. The study will assess: (1) the patterns of arrest and re-arrest piror and subsequent to the intervention, and, (2) the attitudinal changes of serious offenders prior and subsequent to the intervention. |
Researcher
: Lee KW |
List of Research Outputs |
Lee K.W., Broadhurst R.G. and Beh S.L., Triad-related Homicides in |
Researcher
: Lee MSY |
Project Title: |
The polarisation of migrant workers in a global city |
Investigator(s): |
Lee MSY |
Department: |
Sociology |
Source(s) of Funding: |
Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research |
Start Date: |
03/2007 |
Abstract: |
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List of Research Outputs |
Lee
M.S.Y., Deviance, In: John Scott, Sociology
- The Key Concepts. |
Lee
M.S.Y., In: Maggy Lee, Human Trafficking.
|
Lee
M.S.Y., Policing Irregular Migration and Sex
Work, 6th Annnual European Criminology Conference, |
Lee
M.S.Y., Understanding Human Trafficking, In:
Maggy Lee, Human Trafficking. |
Lee
M.S.Y., Women's Imprisonment as a Mechanism
of Migration Control in |
Project Title: |
Chinese entrepreneurship: comparative analysis |
Investigator(s): |
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Department: |
Sociology |
Source(s) of Funding: |
Hang Seng Bank Golden Jubilee Education Fund for Research |
Start Date: |
03/2004 |
Abstract: |
To carry out comparative analysis on Chinese entrepreneurship. |
Researcher
: Ng CH |
Project Title: |
Development of multi-media project -based socio-cultural education |
Investigator(s): |
Ng CH, Chan SCL |
Department: |
Sociology |
Source(s) of Funding: |
Teaching Development Grants |
Start Date: |
09/1997 |
Abstract: |
To promote project-based, inter-departmental and inter-institutional learning and teaching activities; to create a task force unit to plan, organize and implement socio-cultural teaching and learning activities that make creative use of audio-visual media. |
Project Title: |
Female sexuality in Hong Kong |
Investigator(s): |
Ng CH, Cheng SL, Chan AKW |
Department: |
Sociology |
Source(s) of Funding: |
Small Project Funding |
Start Date: |
11/2002 |
Abstract: |
To undertake a comprehensive sociological
study of female sexuality in |
Project Title: |
Family in flux:
values, relations, and strategies in |
Investigator(s): |
Ng CH, |
Department: |
Sociology |
Source(s) of Funding: |
Competitive Earmarked Research Grants (CERG) |
Start Date: |
10/2003 |
Abstract: |
To provide a comprehensive portrait and
analysis of the |
Project Title: |
James Wong and |
Investigator(s): |
Ng CH |
Department: |
Sociology |
Source(s) of Funding: |
Small Project Funding |
Start Date: |
01/2006 |
Abstract: |
This is a proposal to study the operation
and impact of |
Researcher
: Wong TWP |
Project Title: |
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Investigator(s): |
Wong TWP, Pun N, Sinn EYY |
Department: |
Sociology |
Source(s) of Funding: |
Central Allocation Vote - Group Research Project |
Start Date: |
06/2001 |
Abstract: |
To systematically building up archives of
oral materials relating to the history of |
Researcher
: Wong WL |
List of Research Outputs |
Wong W.L., Women's Experience in Family Migration, Doing Families in |
Wong W.L., Writing Oral History of Chinese Immigrant Women in |
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