Kevin Kwok-Yin Cheng
Biographic Data
| ID | 235735 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Kwok-Yin Cheng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin Kwok-Yin |
| FAMILY NAME | Cheng |
| SIGNATURE | CHENG K K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Malaya |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-3850-8480 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Criminal record and sentencing: A comparative perspective between England and Wales and Hong Kong
Testing the Drugs’ Sentencing Guidelines: A Comparison between England and Wales and Hong Kong
In the era of sentencing guidelines, the punishment for traffickers is primarily based on the offenders’ culpability and the drug weight. Existing literature tend to focus on the issue of proportionality as it relates to the roles and culpability of offenders. However, little attention has been drawn to the quantity of drugs. England and Wales have incorporated offender roles into their sentencing guidelines, while Hong Kong uses drug tariffs str…
Prosecutorial Procedural Justice and Public Legitimacy in Hong Kong
Prosecutors are said to be ministers of justice and protectors of the public interest. Drawing on procedural justice and the re-conceptualization of legitimacy, this study argues that for prosecutors to be seen to act in the public interest, they should be perceived to exercise their powers legitimately, and, more specifically, for the public to feel that prosecutors make decisions that are morally aligned with their own. Using a random survey of…
Chinese Migrants’ Perceptions of the Queensland Criminal Justice System
Research on perceptions of the criminal legal system has tended to mainly focus on attitudes toward the police and on minority groups other than Chinese communities. The aim of the present study is to measure perceptions of the integrity, competence, and fairness of the various elements of the criminal justice system among a Chinese migrant population residing in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Findings indicate that demographic variables have l…
The Practice and Justifications of Plea Bargaining by Hong Kong Criminal Defence Lawyers
Unlike Western common-law jurisdictions where plea bargaining has been acknowledged, official discourse in Hong Kong denies the existence of plea bargaining. However, defence lawyers are staunch supporters of its use behind the scenes. Using in-depth, semi-structured interviews with Hong Kong criminal defence lawyers, it was found that lawyers' justifications are based on four main grounds: it is non-coercive because the final decision is left to…
The Mark of an Ex-Prisoner: Perceived Discrimination and Self-Stigma of Young Men after Prison in Hong Kong
The stigma of being an ex-prisoner can lead to self-stigmatizing beliefs and hinder reintegration. For young ex-prisoners, this is particularly challenging as they need not only to transition from prison to society but from adolescence to adulthood. This study explores the experiences of discrimination and self-stigma of 16 young men recently released from Hong Kong prisons. Drawing on qualitative in-depth interviews, it reveals that participants…
Rethinking the Concept of Masculinity and Femininity: Focusing on Iran’s Female Students
Addressing students with disabilities in school textbooks
Inclusive education can help facilitate the inclusion of students with disabilities in mainstream schools. Inclusive education has proven to be a key benefit for disabled children as an end in itself and as a means to an end of greater social acceptance of difference and disability. However there needs to be greater awareness‐raising measures at mainstream schools to ease the transition of students with disabilities in this process. School textbo…
Names in Multilingual-Multicultural Malaysia
Malaysia is a multilingual-multicultural country. A study of personal and family names in Malaysia is not only interesting but also profound as this country is composed of three major ethnic groups: Malays, Chinese, and Indians. A name is one of the things that give individuals their own special identity, while also helping others identify the person. The focus of this paper is on ethnicity and names with special reference to Self Identity, Ethni…
Negation and the role of gender and ethnic identity in the discourse of Malaysian children
This study is a qualitative study of Malaysian children aged between four and six years engaged in a story-telling task. The question posed in this piece of research, then, is the role played by gender and ethnic identity in discourse. If it does play a role, what, then, is the nature of this role? Listed below are the aims of this study: 1. To chart relatively uninterrupted discourse in story-telling among children aged between four and six. 2. …
Function and role of laughter in Malaysian women's and men's talk
Academically speaking, for many years humour has been studied in the spheres of philosophy, linguistics, sociology, psychology, anthropology and even the neurosciences. In its role, humour allows the speaker to represent a parallel reality, which often induces positive feedback such as laughter, smiles and grins from his/her fellow listeners. This gender study of humour, analyses the roles and functions as well as the similarities and differences…
Code-switching for a purpose: Focus on pre-school Malaysian children
In this study the term code-switching is defined as the use of two or more linguistic varieties in the same conversation inclusive of dialect changes and style changes. These changes can occur at any point in the sentence, and they may occur within the sentence or between sentences. The term code-switching here encompasses the strategy of transfer (O'Malley and Chamot 1990), language switch (Tarone 1977) and code-switching (Faerch and Kasper 1983…
Language shift and language maintenance in mixed marriages: A case study of a Malaysian-Chinese family
Article Language shift and language maintenance in mixed marriages: a case study of a Malaysian-Chinese family was published on April 23, 2003 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2003, issue 161)
Code-switching for a purpose: Focus on pre-school Malaysian children
In this study the term code-switching is defined as the use of two or more linguistic varieties in the same conversation inclusive of dialect changes and style changes. These changes can occur at any point in the sentence, and they may occur within the sentence or between sentences. The term code-switching here encompasses the strategy of transfer (O'Malley and Chamot 1990), language switch (Tarone 1977) and code-switching (Faerch and Kasper 1983…
The Mark of an Ex-Prisoner: Perceived Discrimination and Self-Stigma of Young Men after Prison in Hong Kong
The stigma of being an ex-prisoner can lead to self-stigmatizing beliefs and hinder reintegration. For young ex-prisoners, this is particularly challenging as they need not only to transition from prison to society but from adolescence to adulthood. This study explores the experiences of discrimination and self-stigma of 16 young men recently released from Hong Kong prisons. Drawing on qualitative in-depth interviews, it reveals that participants…
Prosecutorial Procedural Justice and Public Legitimacy in Hong Kong
Prosecutors are said to be ministers of justice and protectors of the public interest. Drawing on procedural justice and the re-conceptualization of legitimacy, this study argues that for prosecutors to be seen to act in the public interest, they should be perceived to exercise their powers legitimately, and, more specifically, for the public to feel that prosecutors make decisions that are morally aligned with their own. Using a random survey of…
The Practice and Justifications of Plea Bargaining by Hong Kong Criminal Defence Lawyers
Unlike Western common-law jurisdictions where plea bargaining has been acknowledged, official discourse in Hong Kong denies the existence of plea bargaining. However, defence lawyers are staunch supporters of its use behind the scenes. Using in-depth, semi-structured interviews with Hong Kong criminal defence lawyers, it was found that lawyers' justifications are based on four main grounds: it is non-coercive because the final decision is left to…
Addressing students with disabilities in school textbooks
Inclusive education can help facilitate the inclusion of students with disabilities in mainstream schools. Inclusive education has proven to be a key benefit for disabled children as an end in itself and as a means to an end of greater social acceptance of difference and disability. However there needs to be greater awareness‐raising measures at mainstream schools to ease the transition of students with disabilities in this process. School textbo…
Language shift and language maintenance in mixed marriages: A case study of a Malaysian-Chinese family
Article Language shift and language maintenance in mixed marriages: a case study of a Malaysian-Chinese family was published on April 23, 2003 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2003, issue 161)
Names in Multilingual-Multicultural Malaysia
Malaysia is a multilingual-multicultural country. A study of personal and family names in Malaysia is not only interesting but also profound as this country is composed of three major ethnic groups: Malays, Chinese, and Indians. A name is one of the things that give individuals their own special identity, while also helping others identify the person. The focus of this paper is on ethnicity and names with special reference to Self Identity, Ethni…
Function and role of laughter in Malaysian women's and men's talk
Academically speaking, for many years humour has been studied in the spheres of philosophy, linguistics, sociology, psychology, anthropology and even the neurosciences. In its role, humour allows the speaker to represent a parallel reality, which often induces positive feedback such as laughter, smiles and grins from his/her fellow listeners. This gender study of humour, analyses the roles and functions as well as the similarities and differences…
Code-switching for a purpose: Focus on pre-school Malaysian children
In this study the term code-switching is defined as the use of two or more linguistic varieties in the same conversation inclusive of dialect changes and style changes. These changes can occur at any point in the sentence, and they may occur within the sentence or between sentences. The term code-switching here encompasses the strategy of transfer (O'Malley and Chamot 1990), language switch (Tarone 1977) and code-switching (Faerch and Kasper 1983…
Language shift and language maintenance in mixed marriages: A case study of a Malaysian-Chinese family
Article Language shift and language maintenance in mixed marriages: a case study of a Malaysian-Chinese family was published on April 23, 2003 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2003, issue 161)
Negation and the role of gender and ethnic identity in the discourse of Malaysian children
This study is a qualitative study of Malaysian children aged between four and six years engaged in a story-telling task. The question posed in this piece of research, then, is the role played by gender and ethnic identity in discourse. If it does play a role, what, then, is the nature of this role? Listed below are the aims of this study: 1. To chart relatively uninterrupted discourse in story-telling among children aged between four and six. 2. …
Function and role of laughter in Malaysian women's and men's talk
Academically speaking, for many years humour has been studied in the spheres of philosophy, linguistics, sociology, psychology, anthropology and even the neurosciences. In its role, humour allows the speaker to represent a parallel reality, which often induces positive feedback such as laughter, smiles and grins from his/her fellow listeners. This gender study of humour, analyses the roles and functions as well as the similarities and differences…
Names in Multilingual-Multicultural Malaysia
Malaysia is a multilingual-multicultural country. A study of personal and family names in Malaysia is not only interesting but also profound as this country is composed of three major ethnic groups: Malays, Chinese, and Indians. A name is one of the things that give individuals their own special identity, while also helping others identify the person. The focus of this paper is on ethnicity and names with special reference to Self Identity, Ethni…
Rethinking the Concept of Masculinity and Femininity: Focusing on Iran’s Female Students
Addressing students with disabilities in school textbooks
Inclusive education can help facilitate the inclusion of students with disabilities in mainstream schools. Inclusive education has proven to be a key benefit for disabled children as an end in itself and as a means to an end of greater social acceptance of difference and disability. However there needs to be greater awareness‐raising measures at mainstream schools to ease the transition of students with disabilities in this process. School textbo…
The Mark of an Ex-Prisoner: Perceived Discrimination and Self-Stigma of Young Men after Prison in Hong Kong
The stigma of being an ex-prisoner can lead to self-stigmatizing beliefs and hinder reintegration. For young ex-prisoners, this is particularly challenging as they need not only to transition from prison to society but from adolescence to adulthood. This study explores the experiences of discrimination and self-stigma of 16 young men recently released from Hong Kong prisons. Drawing on qualitative in-depth interviews, it reveals that participants…
Chinese Migrants’ Perceptions of the Queensland Criminal Justice System
Research on perceptions of the criminal legal system has tended to mainly focus on attitudes toward the police and on minority groups other than Chinese communities. The aim of the present study is to measure perceptions of the integrity, competence, and fairness of the various elements of the criminal justice system among a Chinese migrant population residing in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Findings indicate that demographic variables have l…
The Practice and Justifications of Plea Bargaining by Hong Kong Criminal Defence Lawyers
Unlike Western common-law jurisdictions where plea bargaining has been acknowledged, official discourse in Hong Kong denies the existence of plea bargaining. However, defence lawyers are staunch supporters of its use behind the scenes. Using in-depth, semi-structured interviews with Hong Kong criminal defence lawyers, it was found that lawyers' justifications are based on four main grounds: it is non-coercive because the final decision is left to…
Prosecutorial Procedural Justice and Public Legitimacy in Hong Kong
Prosecutors are said to be ministers of justice and protectors of the public interest. Drawing on procedural justice and the re-conceptualization of legitimacy, this study argues that for prosecutors to be seen to act in the public interest, they should be perceived to exercise their powers legitimately, and, more specifically, for the public to feel that prosecutors make decisions that are morally aligned with their own. Using a random survey of…
Testing the Drugs’ Sentencing Guidelines: A Comparison between England and Wales and Hong Kong
In the era of sentencing guidelines, the punishment for traffickers is primarily based on the offenders’ culpability and the drug weight. Existing literature tend to focus on the issue of proportionality as it relates to the roles and culpability of offenders. However, little attention has been drawn to the quantity of drugs. England and Wales have incorporated offender roles into their sentencing guidelines, while Hong Kong uses drug tariffs str…
Criminal record and sentencing: A comparative perspective between England and Wales and Hong Kong
Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works)