Ivan Sun
Biographic Data
| ID | 3675604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ivan Sun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ivan |
| FAMILY NAME | Sun |
| SIGNATURE | SUN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delaware |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Enforcing the unenforceable
During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments relied on the police to enforce COVID-19 rules. However, little is known about police enforcement of these norms and use of discretion in this process. The current study draws on a sample of 3,866 police officers from 10 countries across the globe and examines officers’ use of discretion when encountering violations of COVID-19 rules. We assess the relative significance of factors such as the perceptions …
Traditional social learning predicts cyber deviance? Exploring the offending versatility thesis in social learning theory
Social learning theory has been widely implemented to understand cyber deviance. Nevertheless, the antecedent scholarship homogenously nested in the perspective of offending specification, leaving the offending versatility thesis unattained. The lack of such studies may undermine the capability of comprehensively understanding the social learning patterns of online offending. Using a sample of 3741 Chinese college students, this study estimated a…
The Chinese conception of rights
Elizabeth Perry and other theorists argued that a strong centralized government, as well as limited individual freedoms in China, had historically been legitimated by the state’s effective provision of economic security and prosperity to the people and that this moral economy still informed the Chinese conception of rights. This study empirically examined Perry’s notion of the Chinese conception of rights by analyzing survey data collected from o…
Development and reform of police training and education in Taiwan
This article describes the development of training and educating police officers in Taiwan. The current system, which has largely survived the democratic transition between 1986 and 2000, is unique. It is a two-track system in which Taiwan Police College (TPC) is responsible for training low ranking police personnel, whereas Central Police University (CPU) is responsible for educating police management personnel. Currently, the presidents of CPU …
Procedural justice during police-citizen encounters
Procedural justice during police-citizen encounters
Development and reform of police training and education in Taiwan
This article describes the development of training and educating police officers in Taiwan. The current system, which has largely survived the democratic transition between 1986 and 2000, is unique. It is a two-track system in which Taiwan Police College (TPC) is responsible for training low ranking police personnel, whereas Central Police University (CPU) is responsible for educating police management personnel. Currently, the presidents of CPU …
The Chinese conception of rights
Elizabeth Perry and other theorists argued that a strong centralized government, as well as limited individual freedoms in China, had historically been legitimated by the state’s effective provision of economic security and prosperity to the people and that this moral economy still informed the Chinese conception of rights. This study empirically examined Perry’s notion of the Chinese conception of rights by analyzing survey data collected from o…
Traditional social learning predicts cyber deviance? Exploring the offending versatility thesis in social learning theory
Social learning theory has been widely implemented to understand cyber deviance. Nevertheless, the antecedent scholarship homogenously nested in the perspective of offending specification, leaving the offending versatility thesis unattained. The lack of such studies may undermine the capability of comprehensively understanding the social learning patterns of online offending. Using a sample of 3741 Chinese college students, this study estimated a…
Enforcing the unenforceable
During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments relied on the police to enforce COVID-19 rules. However, little is known about police enforcement of these norms and use of discretion in this process. The current study draws on a sample of 3,866 police officers from 10 countries across the globe and examines officers’ use of discretion when encountering violations of COVID-19 rules. We assess the relative significance of factors such as the perceptions …
Crime Patterns and Interventions (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (3 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Discretion (2 works)