T Wing Lo
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4264343 |
|---|---|
| NOME | T Wing Lo |
| PRENOMES | T Wing |
| SOBRENOME | Lo |
| ASSINATURA | LO T W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | City University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4392-1486 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Online Ethnography
The study of hidden, stigmatised, and digitally mediated populations poses a methodological challenge, as their social worlds are dispersed across public, semi-private, private, online, and offline spaces. Conventional ethnography, which is largely tied to specific physical sites, cannot fully capture these dispersed activities; nor can single-platform online methods explain how such populations move across interconnected platforms. This article …
Comparing Project Careerpillar and Traditional Career Services in Hong Kong
Involving Caregivers of Older People in Qualitative Evaluation Research
Purpose: This article explores the growing involvement of service users in evaluation research, specifically examining the “Caregiver Support Project” (The Project) designed to assist informal caregivers of frail older adults in Hong Kong. It highlights the essential role and best practices of engaging service users in evaluating the program. Method: A qualitative design was employed, involving two groups of service users: the intervention group …
A Mixed Methods Analysis of Political Graffiti
While political graffiti helps reveal authentic public sentiments and broader socio-political phenomena, related mixed methods research is lacking, let alone the integration strategies. This article contributes to the field of mixed methods research by introducing a mixed methods longitudinal ethnographic research design, utilizing Lennon Wall Hong Kong as an illustrative example. It integrates: (1) quantitative and qualitative textual analyses o…
The Effectiveness of Project Careerpillar in Enhancing Youths’ Self and Career Development
Purpose In response to the constantly evolving career world which lifelong jobs are less plausible, Project Careerpillar, a newly developed career planning service program in Hong Kong which adopts the life-design approach to career intervention, seeks to enhance youths’ self-understanding, career adaptability, the alignment between their self and job market, sense of satisfaction, and thus fulfilled involvement in work. Method: This study invest…
Chinese triads and the notion of territory
Territory, where a network of influence and business interests can be developed, is an important feature of criminal organizations. While some research on organized crime by Chinese triads has been published in recent years, the concept of triad territory is still under-researched. This article discusses what a triad territory is and how it is formed, managed and defended. Through qualitative research, it is found that triad business is territori…
Effective sanction avoidance in drug trafficking
Drug traffickers perform many crime strategies to avoid legal sanctions. The use of any crime strategy is mainly for reducing the risk of arrest, which has been the focus of research on restrictive deterrence. This study aims to develop a Restrictive Deterrence Utility Scale (RDUS) to measure the effectiveness of crime strategies used in drug trafficking. Survey data were collected from August to October 2021, including 294 female drug offenders …
Young people’s perceptions of the challenges and opportunities during the Mainland China–Hong Kong convergence
Since the handover of the sovereignty of Hong Kong from Britain to China in 1997, convergence between Mainland China and Hong Kong has gradually emerged. During this process, young people have engaged in demonstrations to express their dissatisfaction with government policies and limited socio-economic progression. However, the underlying reasons for their dissatisfaction have not been fully investigated. This study investigates their perceived c…
Restrictive deterrence in Hong Kong drug dealing
Using a framework of certainty reduction – severity mitigation, the paper examines how drug dealers in Hong Kong adopted restrictive deterrence strategies to reduce the certainty, and mitigate the severity, of punishment. It examines seven concrete techniques, including camouflage in public places, picking a safe time and position, counter-reconnaissance, choosing a less severe activity, stashing the product, passing risk, and cooperating with th…
Understanding the life experiences of elderly in social isolation from the social systems perspective
The results support the application of the social systems perspective in investigating the living conditions of the elderly in social isolation. The corresponding practice implications were also discussed
Use of theatresports to promote positive education among youth participants
This shows that the theatresports program manifests the benefits of positive education. Corresponding implications were discussed
Proactive Criminal Thinking and Restrictive Deterrence
Perceived crime benefit and criminal thinking are essential factors in predicting future offending. However, less is known about how the interaction of the two influences individuals' perception and cognition of crime. This study explores whether proactive criminal thinking mediates the effect of perceived crime benefit, and tests whether restrictive deterrence influences these pathways. Using a drug dealer sample that was drawn from the Second R…
An Innovative Model of Positive Education with Traditional Chinese Moral Values
Project Bridge, as a new, contextualized positive education program, is designed to enhance university students' character strengths and moral development, resulting in the promotion of their psychological wellbeing. Taking into account the differences between Western and Chinese cultures, the project integrated both Western and Asian concepts and values in the delivery of university education that would likely bring about optimal outcomes. In th…
An Inquiry into the Relationship between Drug Users’ Psychological Situations and Their Drug-Taking Behaviour
In view of the research gap whereby few studies have investigated the inner psychological situations underlying continuous drug use, this study used the Soulmate Scale to investigate the relationship between soulmate experience and drug-taking behaviour. Overall, 276 participants took part in this study. Results showed that soulmate experience was negatively related to drug-taking behaviour, which means that being psychologically attached to drug…
Securitizing the Colour Revolution
In Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement, the use of Chinese triads to attack protestors has attracted international attention, forcing the regime to constrain further acts of grand illegitimate violence. Research suggests that triads were used as ‘thugs-for-hire’ by the regime to achieve political ends. The present study aims to examine why the triads were hired and what their specific roles and motivations were. It concludes that triads acted as non-st…
Family Dynamic and Antisocial Adolescents in Macau
Drugs as Soulmates
Substance users use substances to tackle psychological stress, frustrations, poor social support and poor-quality relationships. Such experience resembles seeking a soulmate for receiving comfort, a sense of security and satisfaction to relieve feelings of loneliness. Against this backdrop, the study aims to develop a Soulmate Scale to measure substance use and loneliness. Data were collected from 507 drug abusers between 18-71 years of age who w…
Social Capital and Social Networks of Hidden Drug Abuse in Hong Kong
Owing to the increasing prevalence of hidden drug abuse in Hong Kong, yet scarce relevant current local research, this study seeks to carry out an in-depth investigation into the experience of hidden drug abusers, paying particular attention to their relevance to social capital and social networks. Seventy-three abusers attending drug treatment programs were interviewed, and a thematic analysis was performed. The results indicate hidden drug abus…
Organized Crime and Corruption Across Borders
The size and reach of the market in illicit products and services reflect patterns of globalization, \neconomic growth, and armed conflict as well as government and civil society responses to the \nimpacts of these markets. In Asia, these illicit markets have grown rapidly with the opening up of \ntrade and development of China, India and ASEAN boosted by infrastructure development and increased wealth. Traditional crime groups have re-vitalized …
Hikikomori Phenomenon in East Asia
Hikikomori, which originated in Japan, refers to the condition where youths withdraw into the home and do not participate in society for an extended period of time. Recent updates on hikikomori presentation within the region were exchanged at a Hikikomori Round Table and Regional Symposium (HRTRS) discussion late 2017, leading to this perspective paper. Hikikomori presents as an overall homogeneous construct, while diversity in clinical presentat…
Intrinsic Motivation and Psychological Connectedness to Drug Abuse and Rehabilitation
This study adopts the perspective of the Self-Determination Theory to look at the psychological experience of drug users and their decisions to take drugs or not, with particular emphasis on the concept of relatedness. To achieve this objective, a qualitative methodology was employed to explore the experiences of these drug users regarding how they take drugs and/or relapse. Theory-driven thematic analysis was employed to identify themes related …
The Association between Substance Abuse and Sexual Misconduct among Macau Youths
This study investigates how peer influence, school attachment, and substance abuse are related to sexual behavior, with particular interest in exploring the relationship between substance abuse and sexual misconduct, while using a stratified random sample of adolescents in Macau. Mediation analyses were employed. The results show that substance abuse, apart from susceptibility to peer influence and school attachment/commitment, was significantly …
Conditions for Facilitation by Voluntary Organizations to Enhance Social Cohesion in China
Hidden Drug Abuse in Hong Kong
The present paper examines the issue of hidden drug abuse in Hong Kong. Although official statistics show that the reported number of drug-abuse cases has been in decline in recent years, it has been reported that drug abusers tend to hide themselves at home to take drugs; thus, they are not discovered easily by the law enforcement and social control agents who report drug abuse cases to the Central Registry of Drug Abuse, resulting in the decrea…
Predicting Effects of the Self and Contextual Factors on Violence
This study was designed to explore the self and contextual factors for violence in two samples of school students and youth offenders in Macau. There were 3085 participants who were between 12 and 20 years old; 48.3% of them were male and 51.7% female. Findings revealed that youth offenders exhibited more violence than school students. For the self factors, while lower self-esteem and higher self-efficacy of school students were associated with m…
School Bullying Among Hong Kong Chinese Primary Schoolchildren
The first comprehensive survey of 7,025 Chinese primary schoolchildren found that 24% of respondents reported that they had sometimes physically bullied another child. When children observed school bullying, 56% said they immediately reported it to their teachers. Another 20% tried to stop the bullying by approaching the bullies. The study also identified factors associated with bullying. These included coming from an adverse psychosocial backgro…
Beyond Social Capital
In view of the smuggling out of democratic leaders after the Tiananmen crackdown in 1989 and China's resumption of sovereignty of Hong Kong in 1997, China applied a ‘united front’ tactic to recruit Hong Kong triad societies to the Communist camp. Consequently, triad leaders were able to set foot in China and bridge up with officials and state enterprises. Against this backdrop, this paper argues that when political dynamics is involved, both the …
Triadization of Youth Gangs in Hong Kong
Journal Article Triadization of Youth Gangs in Hong Kong Get access T. Wing Lo T. Wing Lo * *Dr, Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, China; [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 52, Issue 3, May 2012, Pages 556–576, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azr091 Published: 02 December 2011
Psychometric properties of the volunteer functions inventory with Chinese students
The authors report an evaluation of the psychometric properties of a Chinese version of the Volunteer Functions Inventory on a sample of university student volunteers. Reliabilities were high for four out of the six scales of the Inventory (Values, Career, Social, and Understanding) in terms of internal consistency. Items in these four scales also yielded a clean structure in an exploratory factor analysis. Making new friends was found to be a mo…
Relationships Between Volunteerism and Social Responsibility in Young Volunteers
A vexing research question concerns reciprocal relationships between social responsibility and volunteerism, characterized by volunteer identity and low volunteering cost perceived among young volunteers. This study analyzes panel data collected from 527 university students engaged in a volunteering project at a university in Hong Kong, China. Controlling for background and selectivity factors, the study reveals that the volunteer’s social respon…
Sustaining Social Trust and Volunteer Role Identity Reciprocally over Time in Pre-adult, Adult, and Older Volunteers
Social services often organize volunteer work to achieve social well-being, such as building volunteer trust in various people. Meanwhile, a vital goal for the organizing is the development of volunteer identity, such that volunteers identify themselves with volunteering. Volunteer identity is supposed to maintain reciprocal effects with social trust. Moreover, the individual's volunteer identity and social trust are supposed to be responsive to …
The recent development of restorative social work practices in Hong Kong
Restorative justice has grown rapidly in the last two decades with the emergence of new practice approaches in juvenile justice and school social work.This article briefly analyses the backgrounds leading to the emergence of restorative justice around the world. It highlights the basic ideas and themes of restorative justice, and discusses how it may be adopted in youth services such as school social work and juvenile justice in Hong Kong
Hidden youth services
Formation and Trend of Guanxi Practice and Guanxi Phenomenon
With the increase of interactions between Chinese and international communities, guanxi, a Chinese term, has catching more and more attentions from non-Chinese speaking people. Guanxi, from a sociological perspective, is formed on the ascribed, social or third party bases through the mechanism of ganqing and renqing. Different from other scholars, the authors consider guanxi phenomenon is an outcome of co-impacts from Confucianism and institution…
Curbing draconian powers
Since its establishment in 1974, the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) had enjoyed draconian powers to fight against rampant corruption in Hong Kong. These powers have been criticised as a serious infringement of human rights. With the introduction of the Bill of Rights Ordinance in 1991, some of these powers were challenged in the courts. The ICAC Review conducted in 1994 further trimmed down its outdated powers. As a result, whil…
Effective sanction avoidance in drug trafficking
Drug traffickers perform many crime strategies to avoid legal sanctions. The use of any crime strategy is mainly for reducing the risk of arrest, which has been the focus of research on restrictive deterrence. This study aims to develop a Restrictive Deterrence Utility Scale (RDUS) to measure the effectiveness of crime strategies used in drug trafficking. Survey data were collected from August to October 2021, including 294 female drug offenders …
Securitizing the Colour Revolution
In Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement, the use of Chinese triads to attack protestors has attracted international attention, forcing the regime to constrain further acts of grand illegitimate violence. Research suggests that triads were used as ‘thugs-for-hire’ by the regime to achieve political ends. The present study aims to examine why the triads were hired and what their specific roles and motivations were. It concludes that triads acted as non-st…
Task-centered groupwork
English This article describes the transferability of task-centered casework to group-work in Hong Kong. While task-centered casework helps individual clients to solve their personal problems, its short intervention period may limit the development of intensive social support and treatment in groups. The article summarizes social workers’ experiences in reconciling this conflict. French Cet article décrit le processus de transfert, à Hong Kong, d…
The Politics of Social Censure
The Politics of Social Censure
Curbing draconian powers
Since its establishment in 1974, the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) had enjoyed draconian powers to fight against rampant corruption in Hong Kong. These powers have been criticised as a serious infringement of human rights. With the introduction of the Bill of Rights Ordinance in 1991, some of these powers were challenged in the courts. The ICAC Review conducted in 1994 further trimmed down its outdated powers. As a result, whil…
Task-centered groupwork
English This article describes the transferability of task-centered casework to group-work in Hong Kong. While task-centered casework helps individual clients to solve their personal problems, its short intervention period may limit the development of intensive social support and treatment in groups. The article summarizes social workers’ experiences in reconciling this conflict. French Cet article décrit le processus de transfert, à Hong Kong, d…
Supportive services for immigrant youths in Hong Kong
English Programmes for disadvantaged youths have become a priority of the youth centres in Hong Kong. This article introduces the psychosocial problems encountered by immigrant youths and the kinds of supportive services provided to them. It concludes that they are satisfied with the services and have also experienced personal growth. French Des programmes visant les jeunes désavantagés sont devenus prioritaires pour les centres de jeunesse à Hon…
School Bullying Among Hong Kong Chinese Primary Schoolchildren
The first comprehensive survey of 7,025 Chinese primary schoolchildren found that 24% of respondents reported that they had sometimes physically bullied another child. When children observed school bullying, 56% said they immediately reported it to their teachers. Another 20% tried to stop the bullying by approaching the bullies. The study also identified factors associated with bullying. These included coming from an adverse psychosocial backgro…
Psychometric properties of the volunteer functions inventory with Chinese students
The authors report an evaluation of the psychometric properties of a Chinese version of the Volunteer Functions Inventory on a sample of university student volunteers. Reliabilities were high for four out of the six scales of the Inventory (Values, Career, Social, and Understanding) in terms of internal consistency. Items in these four scales also yielded a clean structure in an exploratory factor analysis. Making new friends was found to be a mo…
Policing and the mentally ill in China
Public security officers are the first to be called upon to restore order where an incident has been precipitated by a person with mental illness. The paper introduces the steps followed by the officers in handling the case. Problems related to mental health legislation, guardianship, medical services, and policing practices are examined. Since there are not yet comprehensive policies and legislation to protect mental patients in China, it is sug…
The recent development of restorative social work practices in Hong Kong
Restorative justice has grown rapidly in the last two decades with the emergence of new practice approaches in juvenile justice and school social work.This article briefly analyses the backgrounds leading to the emergence of restorative justice around the world. It highlights the basic ideas and themes of restorative justice, and discusses how it may be adopted in youth services such as school social work and juvenile justice in Hong Kong
Beyond Social Capital
In view of the smuggling out of democratic leaders after the Tiananmen crackdown in 1989 and China's resumption of sovereignty of Hong Kong in 1997, China applied a ‘united front’ tactic to recruit Hong Kong triad societies to the Communist camp. Consequently, triad leaders were able to set foot in China and bridge up with officials and state enterprises. Against this backdrop, this paper argues that when political dynamics is involved, both the …
Formation and Trend of Guanxi Practice and Guanxi Phenomenon
With the increase of interactions between Chinese and international communities, guanxi, a Chinese term, has catching more and more attentions from non-Chinese speaking people. Guanxi, from a sociological perspective, is formed on the ascribed, social or third party bases through the mechanism of ganqing and renqing. Different from other scholars, the authors consider guanxi phenomenon is an outcome of co-impacts from Confucianism and institution…
Triadization of Youth Gangs in Hong Kong
Journal Article Triadization of Youth Gangs in Hong Kong Get access T. Wing Lo T. Wing Lo * *Dr, Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, China; [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 52, Issue 3, May 2012, Pages 556–576, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azr091 Published: 02 December 2011
Relationships Between Volunteerism and Social Responsibility in Young Volunteers
A vexing research question concerns reciprocal relationships between social responsibility and volunteerism, characterized by volunteer identity and low volunteering cost perceived among young volunteers. This study analyzes panel data collected from 527 university students engaged in a volunteering project at a university in Hong Kong, China. Controlling for background and selectivity factors, the study reveals that the volunteer’s social respon…
Hidden youth services
Sustaining Social Trust and Volunteer Role Identity Reciprocally over Time in Pre-adult, Adult, and Older Volunteers
Social services often organize volunteer work to achieve social well-being, such as building volunteer trust in various people. Meanwhile, a vital goal for the organizing is the development of volunteer identity, such that volunteers identify themselves with volunteering. Volunteer identity is supposed to maintain reciprocal effects with social trust. Moreover, the individual's volunteer identity and social trust are supposed to be responsive to …
Triad Organized Crime in Macau Casinos
The Chinese criminal underworld is evolving along two paths: structural and territorial-based triads and criminal groups formed by entrepreneurs. The present study used triad involvement in casino VIP rooms to examine how these two paths cross after China resumed sovereignty of Macau in 1999. It was found that although the current operations of the junket business is determined by the external business environment in mainland China, triads contin…
Family Relationships and the Self-Esteem of Hidden Youth
The transmission of power requires the presence of an interpersonal network as a medium; however, the nature of the relationship in the effect of power exertion is seldom discussed. In view of this research gap, this study aims to examine whether the degree of the relationship determines the impact of discipline over hidden youth, which subsequently affects young people's level of subordination. Hidden youth ( N = 363) participated in the quantit…
Hidden Drug Abuse in Hong Kong
The present paper examines the issue of hidden drug abuse in Hong Kong. Although official statistics show that the reported number of drug-abuse cases has been in decline in recent years, it has been reported that drug abusers tend to hide themselves at home to take drugs; thus, they are not discovered easily by the law enforcement and social control agents who report drug abuse cases to the Central Registry of Drug Abuse, resulting in the decrea…
Predicting Effects of the Self and Contextual Factors on Violence
This study was designed to explore the self and contextual factors for violence in two samples of school students and youth offenders in Macau. There were 3085 participants who were between 12 and 20 years old; 48.3% of them were male and 51.7% female. Findings revealed that youth offenders exhibited more violence than school students. For the self factors, while lower self-esteem and higher self-efficacy of school students were associated with m…
Organized Crime and Corruption Across Borders
The size and reach of the market in illicit products and services reflect patterns of globalization, \neconomic growth, and armed conflict as well as government and civil society responses to the \nimpacts of these markets. In Asia, these illicit markets have grown rapidly with the opening up of \ntrade and development of China, India and ASEAN boosted by infrastructure development and increased wealth. Traditional crime groups have re-vitalized …
Hikikomori Phenomenon in East Asia
Hikikomori, which originated in Japan, refers to the condition where youths withdraw into the home and do not participate in society for an extended period of time. Recent updates on hikikomori presentation within the region were exchanged at a Hikikomori Round Table and Regional Symposium (HRTRS) discussion late 2017, leading to this perspective paper. Hikikomori presents as an overall homogeneous construct, while diversity in clinical presentat…
Intrinsic Motivation and Psychological Connectedness to Drug Abuse and Rehabilitation
This study adopts the perspective of the Self-Determination Theory to look at the psychological experience of drug users and their decisions to take drugs or not, with particular emphasis on the concept of relatedness. To achieve this objective, a qualitative methodology was employed to explore the experiences of these drug users regarding how they take drugs and/or relapse. Theory-driven thematic analysis was employed to identify themes related …
The Association between Substance Abuse and Sexual Misconduct among Macau Youths
This study investigates how peer influence, school attachment, and substance abuse are related to sexual behavior, with particular interest in exploring the relationship between substance abuse and sexual misconduct, while using a stratified random sample of adolescents in Macau. Mediation analyses were employed. The results show that substance abuse, apart from susceptibility to peer influence and school attachment/commitment, was significantly …
Conditions for Facilitation by Voluntary Organizations to Enhance Social Cohesion in China
Family Dynamic and Antisocial Adolescents in Macau
Drugs as Soulmates
Substance users use substances to tackle psychological stress, frustrations, poor social support and poor-quality relationships. Such experience resembles seeking a soulmate for receiving comfort, a sense of security and satisfaction to relieve feelings of loneliness. Against this backdrop, the study aims to develop a Soulmate Scale to measure substance use and loneliness. Data were collected from 507 drug abusers between 18-71 years of age who w…
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