Yiwei Xia
Biographic Data
| ID | 3913486 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yiwei Xia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yiwei |
| FAMILY NAME | Xia |
| SIGNATURE | XIA Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7360-732X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Approaching Crime Information from Major National Social Surveys in China: A Comprehensive Review of Their Value and Utility for Criminological Research
Understanding and addressing issues of victimization, public safety, and crime requires accurate and comprehensive survey data. However, China currently lacks systematic, nationally representative surveys specifically designed for criminological research. This study systematically reviews six major social surveys: the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS), China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), Chinese Social Survey (CSS), China Labor-force Dynamics S…
Are foreigners granted leniency? An analysis of drug sentencing in China
Drug crimes are socially and politically constructed phenomena that are frequently embedded in narratives about foreign threats and national security. Yet research on how nationality structures sentencing outcomes, particularly in China, remains limited. Analyzing 2804 first-instance drug crime judgments (2017–2019) from the Peking University Law Database, this study reveals a patterned and stratified relationship between nationality and punishme…
Sentencing equilibrium in rape cases: A legal and political explanation of jurisdictional uniformity in China
Sentencing disparity dominates in American scholarship and has been leading global research in past decades, however, few studies have addressed sentencing equilibrium across countries. Learning from the previous theories regarding court communities, organizational conformity, and so on, this paper develops a theory of jurisdictional uniformity to address sentencing equilibrium in embedded courts across different levels in China. With data on sen…
Physical Fitness Predicts Bullying Victimization for Boys but Not for Girls: A Two‐Wave Follow‐Up Study
INTRODUCTION: Bullying victimization profoundly impacts the psychological and physical well-being of adolescents. There is limited research on the specific role of physical fitness in bullying victimization, and existing studies often overlook sex differences in these dynamics. This study investigates the relationship between sprint performance and bullying victimization among adolescents, emphasizing the moderating role of sex through the lens o…
Testing the law of crime concentration in China: Do transportation networks matter
Examining the Integrated Theory of Fraud Victimization in the Chinese Context: Insights from a Nationally Representative Survey
Understanding the relations between personality traits, bullying perpetration, and victimization among Chinese adolescents: A psychological network analysis
Low self-control, perceived social support and internet gaming addiction: Findings from an ethnicity minority region in China
This study highlights the protective role of perceived social support, especially from family and significant others, in buffering the risk of low self-control on IGA. The findings extend self-control theory and social support theory, and provide empirical support for problem behavior theory in a cross-cultural context. The results underscore the importance of considering cultural contexts in understanding IGA and developing targeted intervention…
Serving on WeChat: Understanding the logics of police’s engagement with the public in Chinese contexts
Routine activities and fraud re-victimization among older adults: Do types of routine activities matter
Previous studies have established a link between prior victimization and subsequent victimization, although research in the context of fraud victimization, particularly among older adults, remains limited. To address this research gap, this study examines data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, a national survey of older Chinese adults, to explore the occurrence of re-victimization in fraud and the influence of routine activ…
Individual Stress, Contextual Stress, and Network Attributes on Cyberbullying Perpetration Among Young Adults During the Covid-19 Lockdown
General Strain Theory (GST) was applied to understand the emergence of cyberbullying during the COVID-19 lockdown. However, how contextual stress and network attributes contributed to cyberbullying perpetration has yet to be explored. Thus, to fill this gap in the literature, this study surveyed 494 young adults from one college of a university in China during the COVID-19 lockdown. The contextual stress was measured by the average stress reporte…
Network structure of the links between extracurricular time-use and delinquent behaviors: Moving forward and beyond linear relations
Using psychological network analysis, this study explored the heterogeneity of the network structure between extracurricular time-use and delinquency using a nationally representative longitudinal survey of at-school students in China (N = 10,279, 47.3% female, average age 13.6, 91.2% Han ethnicity). The results are threefold: First, time stimulation of activities occurs on weekdays, while time displacement and stimulation occur on weekends. Seco…
A Comparative Study of Parenting Practices and Juvenile Delinquency between China and the United States
This study examines the differences in parenting practices and their effects on juvenile delinquency between China and the United States. Its principal goal is to gain a more culturally relevant understanding of the possible ways of preventing delinquency through the improvement of parenting styles. The analyses were based on a nationally representative sample of American adolescents and a probability sample of Chinese adolescents in the same age…
Cyberbullying-Victimization Overlap Among Chinese University Students: Does Network Structure Matter
With widespread internet and social media use among youngsters, cyberbullying has emerged as a novel form of bullying. According to the routine activity and lifestyle theories, cyberbullying and victimization overlap significantly. However, the nature and mechanism of the overlap is not yet adequately understood. This study contributes to extant literature by investigating the role of network structure in cyberbullying-victimization overlap. Part…
Temporal Variations in Calls for Police Service During Covid-19: Evidence From China
This study examined the temporal variations in calls for service before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in China using a sample of 37,124 police service calls made from January 1, 2019, to December 31, 2020 to a 110 command center in a county-level city in Hubei Province. There was a significant temporal effect, and the calls for service peaked between 08:00 and 19:59 throughout the entire period. The busiest hours of the day fo…
Multifarious Linkages Between Personality Traits and Psychological Distress During and After Covid-19 Campus Lockdown: A Psychological Network Analysis
This study explores the internal mechanisms of the ways in which certain personality traits trigger specific symptoms. Overall, our results provide empirical evidence that personality traits play a key role in how individuals with certain traits respond to college lockdown during a pandemic. The study makes a significant contribution to the literature because it is among the first few studies which explores the effects of personality traits on in…
Rank, strain, and corruption among Chinese public officials: A general strain theory perspective
The problem of corruption has long been a societal focus in China. Agnew's general strain theory (GST) offers a good explanation of the drive to engage in corruption; that is, offenders are likely to be driven by various types of strains and engage in corrupt behavior as a coping mechanism. However, whether and how an official's rank moderates the effect of strain on corrupt behavior has yet to be explored. The current study surveyed 687 inmates …
General Strain Theory and Corruption among Grassroot Chinese Public Officials: A Mixed-method Study
The rampancy of corruption in China has stimulated a wide range of scholarly attention on its etiology. The general strain theory (GST) predicts that the economics-related strain, promotion-related strain, and work-related strain increase white-collar offenses. However, the generalizability of GST's prediction of white-collar offenses in non-Western societies is unclear. Applying a sequential exploratory mixed-method design, this study involved i…
Problematic Internet use among residential college students during the Covid-19 lockdown: A social network analysis approach
Can Restorative Justice Reduce Incarceration? A Story From China
This paper attempts to investigate the capacity of restorative justice (RJ) to reduce incarceration in China. It utilizes a “top-down” approach to explore how macro transitions in Chinese politics and criminal justice translate into micro implementation of RJ, which ultimately affects incarceration. Interviews with Chinese police, prosecutors, and judges revealed how minor injury cases were diverted by RJ throughout the criminal justice system. I…
Development and validation of the Chinese public official strain scale
Generalized Inflated Discrete Models: A Strategy to Work with Multimodal Discrete Distributions
Analysts of discrete data often face the challenge of managing the tendency of inflation on certain values. When treated improperly, such phenomenon may lead to biased estimates and incorrect inferences. This study extends the existing literature on single-value inflated models and develops a general framework to handle variables with more than one inflated value. To assess the performance of the proposed maximum likelihood estimator, we conducte…
Acculturation strategies, age at migration, and self-rated health: An empirical study on internal migrants in China
Coercive Parenting and Adolescent Developmental Outcomes: The Moderating Effects of Empathic Concern and Perception of Social Rejection
Previous studies have identified coercive parenting as a prevalent parenting style in Chinese society. They suggested that this style of parenting could promote prosocial behavior and school commitment when combined with close monitoring and proper training, but it could also undermine mental health. This study critically examines these claims. Based on the existing theory and research, it is predicted that the influences of coercive parenting on…
A Longitudinal Study of Authoritative Parenting, Juvenile Delinquency and Crime Victimization among Chinese Adolescents
Empirical research on the relationship between authoritative parenting and crime victimization has been sparse, although this style of parenting has been identified as an effective parenting practice for inhibiting offending behavior among children and adolescents. The current research aims at filling this gap by examining the influences of authoritative parenting on juvenile delinquency and crime victimization, as well as the mechanisms connecti…
Acculturation strategies, age at migration, and self-rated health: An empirical study on internal migrants in China
Mapping Trafficking of Women in China: Evidence from Court Sentences
In recent years, exposés on the trafficking of women have caught the public’s attention in China. However, due to data scarcity, the scope and nature of such criminal activity are not well understood. The authors of this study provide a new angle in the analysis of human trafficking by digitizing and analyzing court sentencing documents on trafficking in China during 2014–2015.Through mapping court data to geographic information and performing ne…
A Comparative Study of Parenting Practices and Juvenile Delinquency between China and the United States
This study examines the differences in parenting practices and their effects on juvenile delinquency between China and the United States. Its principal goal is to gain a more culturally relevant understanding of the possible ways of preventing delinquency through the improvement of parenting styles. The analyses were based on a nationally representative sample of American adolescents and a probability sample of Chinese adolescents in the same age…
General Strain Theory and Corruption among Grassroot Chinese Public Officials: A Mixed-method Study
The rampancy of corruption in China has stimulated a wide range of scholarly attention on its etiology. The general strain theory (GST) predicts that the economics-related strain, promotion-related strain, and work-related strain increase white-collar offenses. However, the generalizability of GST's prediction of white-collar offenses in non-Western societies is unclear. Applying a sequential exploratory mixed-method design, this study involved i…
Generalized Inflated Discrete Models: A Strategy to Work with Multimodal Discrete Distributions
Analysts of discrete data often face the challenge of managing the tendency of inflation on certain values. When treated improperly, such phenomenon may lead to biased estimates and incorrect inferences. This study extends the existing literature on single-value inflated models and develops a general framework to handle variables with more than one inflated value. To assess the performance of the proposed maximum likelihood estimator, we conducte…
Routine activities and fraud re-victimization among older adults: Do types of routine activities matter
Previous studies have established a link between prior victimization and subsequent victimization, although research in the context of fraud victimization, particularly among older adults, remains limited. To address this research gap, this study examines data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, a national survey of older Chinese adults, to explore the occurrence of re-victimization in fraud and the influence of routine activ…
Development and validation of the Chinese public official strain scale
Predictors and Implications of Synthetic Drug Use Among Adolescents in the Gambling Capital of China
Synthetic drug abuse has become an increasingly serious problem among adolescents in Macao, the world's largest gambling market and the only legal gambling place in China. To counteract this trend, a good understanding of the culturally relevant risk factors for this behavior is required. Based on social learning theory and opportunity perspective of deviance, logistic regression analysis was performed on a probability sample of 8,076 Macao stude…
Predictors and Implications of Synthetic Drug Use Among Adolescents in the Gambling Capital of China
Synthetic drug abuse has become an increasingly serious problem among adolescents in Macao, the world's largest gambling market and the only legal gambling place in China. To counteract this trend, a good understanding of the culturally relevant risk factors for this behavior is required. Based on social learning theory and opportunity perspective of deviance, logistic regression analysis was performed on a probability sample of 8,076 Macao stude…
The Interrelationship between Family Violence, Adolescent Violence, and Adolescent Violent Victimization: An Application and Extension of the Cultural Spillover Theory in China
The current study is the first study to emphasize family systems, violent norms, and violent peer association as three domains of the social environment that influence both adolescent violent offending and victimization among Chinese adolescents using a longitudinal sample. Under the framework of cultural spillover theory, the purpose of the current study was to explore how these three factors influenced adolescent violent offending and victimiza…
Post-Traumatic Growth Following Exposure to Memorial Reports of the 5.12 Wenchuan Earthquake: The Moderating Roles of Self-Esteem and Long-Term PTSD Symptoms
Media exposure during a traumatic event has been found to be associated with negative psychological consequences. However, the post-disaster role of the mass media and the possible positive psychological consequences of media exposure has received less attention. In the present study, we hypothesized that exposure to memorial media reports would lead to improved post-traumatic growth (PTG). Further, we evaluated the moderating role of self-esteem…
Mapping Trafficking of Women in China: Evidence from Court Sentences
In recent years, exposés on the trafficking of women have caught the public’s attention in China. However, due to data scarcity, the scope and nature of such criminal activity are not well understood. The authors of this study provide a new angle in the analysis of human trafficking by digitizing and analyzing court sentencing documents on trafficking in China during 2014–2015.Through mapping court data to geographic information and performing ne…
Coercive Parenting and Adolescent Developmental Outcomes: The Moderating Effects of Empathic Concern and Perception of Social Rejection
Previous studies have identified coercive parenting as a prevalent parenting style in Chinese society. They suggested that this style of parenting could promote prosocial behavior and school commitment when combined with close monitoring and proper training, but it could also undermine mental health. This study critically examines these claims. Based on the existing theory and research, it is predicted that the influences of coercive parenting on…
A Longitudinal Study of Authoritative Parenting, Juvenile Delinquency and Crime Victimization among Chinese Adolescents
Empirical research on the relationship between authoritative parenting and crime victimization has been sparse, although this style of parenting has been identified as an effective parenting practice for inhibiting offending behavior among children and adolescents. The current research aims at filling this gap by examining the influences of authoritative parenting on juvenile delinquency and crime victimization, as well as the mechanisms connecti…
Problematic Internet use among residential college students during the Covid-19 lockdown: A social network analysis approach
Can Restorative Justice Reduce Incarceration? A Story From China
This paper attempts to investigate the capacity of restorative justice (RJ) to reduce incarceration in China. It utilizes a “top-down” approach to explore how macro transitions in Chinese politics and criminal justice translate into micro implementation of RJ, which ultimately affects incarceration. Interviews with Chinese police, prosecutors, and judges revealed how minor injury cases were diverted by RJ throughout the criminal justice system. I…
Development and validation of the Chinese public official strain scale
Generalized Inflated Discrete Models: A Strategy to Work with Multimodal Discrete Distributions
Analysts of discrete data often face the challenge of managing the tendency of inflation on certain values. When treated improperly, such phenomenon may lead to biased estimates and incorrect inferences. This study extends the existing literature on single-value inflated models and develops a general framework to handle variables with more than one inflated value. To assess the performance of the proposed maximum likelihood estimator, we conducte…
Acculturation strategies, age at migration, and self-rated health: An empirical study on internal migrants in China
Cyberbullying-Victimization Overlap Among Chinese University Students: Does Network Structure Matter
With widespread internet and social media use among youngsters, cyberbullying has emerged as a novel form of bullying. According to the routine activity and lifestyle theories, cyberbullying and victimization overlap significantly. However, the nature and mechanism of the overlap is not yet adequately understood. This study contributes to extant literature by investigating the role of network structure in cyberbullying-victimization overlap. Part…
Temporal Variations in Calls for Police Service During Covid-19: Evidence From China
This study examined the temporal variations in calls for service before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in China using a sample of 37,124 police service calls made from January 1, 2019, to December 31, 2020 to a 110 command center in a county-level city in Hubei Province. There was a significant temporal effect, and the calls for service peaked between 08:00 and 19:59 throughout the entire period. The busiest hours of the day fo…
Multifarious Linkages Between Personality Traits and Psychological Distress During and After Covid-19 Campus Lockdown: A Psychological Network Analysis
This study explores the internal mechanisms of the ways in which certain personality traits trigger specific symptoms. Overall, our results provide empirical evidence that personality traits play a key role in how individuals with certain traits respond to college lockdown during a pandemic. The study makes a significant contribution to the literature because it is among the first few studies which explores the effects of personality traits on in…
Rank, strain, and corruption among Chinese public officials: A general strain theory perspective
The problem of corruption has long been a societal focus in China. Agnew's general strain theory (GST) offers a good explanation of the drive to engage in corruption; that is, offenders are likely to be driven by various types of strains and engage in corrupt behavior as a coping mechanism. However, whether and how an official's rank moderates the effect of strain on corrupt behavior has yet to be explored. The current study surveyed 687 inmates …
General Strain Theory and Corruption among Grassroot Chinese Public Officials: A Mixed-method Study
The rampancy of corruption in China has stimulated a wide range of scholarly attention on its etiology. The general strain theory (GST) predicts that the economics-related strain, promotion-related strain, and work-related strain increase white-collar offenses. However, the generalizability of GST's prediction of white-collar offenses in non-Western societies is unclear. Applying a sequential exploratory mixed-method design, this study involved i…
Network structure of the links between extracurricular time-use and delinquent behaviors: Moving forward and beyond linear relations
Using psychological network analysis, this study explored the heterogeneity of the network structure between extracurricular time-use and delinquency using a nationally representative longitudinal survey of at-school students in China (N = 10,279, 47.3% female, average age 13.6, 91.2% Han ethnicity). The results are threefold: First, time stimulation of activities occurs on weekdays, while time displacement and stimulation occur on weekends. Seco…
A Comparative Study of Parenting Practices and Juvenile Delinquency between China and the United States
This study examines the differences in parenting practices and their effects on juvenile delinquency between China and the United States. Its principal goal is to gain a more culturally relevant understanding of the possible ways of preventing delinquency through the improvement of parenting styles. The analyses were based on a nationally representative sample of American adolescents and a probability sample of Chinese adolescents in the same age…
Understanding the relations between personality traits, bullying perpetration, and victimization among Chinese adolescents: A psychological network analysis
Low self-control, perceived social support and internet gaming addiction: Findings from an ethnicity minority region in China
This study highlights the protective role of perceived social support, especially from family and significant others, in buffering the risk of low self-control on IGA. The findings extend self-control theory and social support theory, and provide empirical support for problem behavior theory in a cross-cultural context. The results underscore the importance of considering cultural contexts in understanding IGA and developing targeted intervention…
Serving on WeChat: Understanding the logics of police’s engagement with the public in Chinese contexts
Routine activities and fraud re-victimization among older adults: Do types of routine activities matter
Previous studies have established a link between prior victimization and subsequent victimization, although research in the context of fraud victimization, particularly among older adults, remains limited. To address this research gap, this study examines data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, a national survey of older Chinese adults, to explore the occurrence of re-victimization in fraud and the influence of routine activ…
Individual Stress, Contextual Stress, and Network Attributes on Cyberbullying Perpetration Among Young Adults During the Covid-19 Lockdown
General Strain Theory (GST) was applied to understand the emergence of cyberbullying during the COVID-19 lockdown. However, how contextual stress and network attributes contributed to cyberbullying perpetration has yet to be explored. Thus, to fill this gap in the literature, this study surveyed 494 young adults from one college of a university in China during the COVID-19 lockdown. The contextual stress was measured by the average stress reporte…
Sentencing equilibrium in rape cases: A legal and political explanation of jurisdictional uniformity in China
Sentencing disparity dominates in American scholarship and has been leading global research in past decades, however, few studies have addressed sentencing equilibrium across countries. Learning from the previous theories regarding court communities, organizational conformity, and so on, this paper develops a theory of jurisdictional uniformity to address sentencing equilibrium in embedded courts across different levels in China. With data on sen…
Physical Fitness Predicts Bullying Victimization for Boys but Not for Girls: A Two‐Wave Follow‐Up Study
INTRODUCTION: Bullying victimization profoundly impacts the psychological and physical well-being of adolescents. There is limited research on the specific role of physical fitness in bullying victimization, and existing studies often overlook sex differences in these dynamics. This study investigates the relationship between sprint performance and bullying victimization among adolescents, emphasizing the moderating role of sex through the lens o…
Psychology (22 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (13 works) · China (12 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Clinical Psychology (9 works) · Criminology (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression (8 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works)