Dennis S W Wong
Biographic Data
| ID | 4369696 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dennis S W Wong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dennis S W |
| FAMILY NAME | Wong |
| SIGNATURE | WONG D S W |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5133-2342 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Intimate Partner Violence among Adolescents in Hong Kong
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) among adolescents is a prime public health concern worldwide. Research found that IPV victimization and peers’ IPV perpetration could increase the likelihood of IPV perpetration. In contrast, healthy partner attachment, forgiveness, shame management, and family harmony could serve as protective factors for IPV. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the risk and protective factors of IPV perpetration among adole…
The Encounter of Two Worlds
INTRODUCTION: Divided narratives pose long-standing difficulties in physician and patient communication. In decision-making on cancer treatment, divided narratives between physicians and patients hinder mutual understanding and agreement over the illness and its treatment. For effective decision-making on treatments, it is necessary to investigate the similarities and differences in these divided narratives. METHODS: This study adopted a qualitat…
Concerns about the meaning of ‘restorative justice’ from a Chinese criminologist’s perspective
Desistance from Crime among Chinese Delinquents
Desistance from crime is a popular topic in global criminological research; however, few studies have focused on desistance among delinquent youth, particularly in non-Western societies. This study extends the current knowledge by examining pathways of youth desistance in Hong Kong. Thirty delinquent youth and six parent-child dyads were interviewed, and the study found that filial piety significantly impacts the process of youth desistance. Thre…
Development of the Cybercrime Rapid Identification Tool for Adolescents
Two studies were conducted to support the development of an eight-item Cybercrime Rapid Identification Tool (CRIT) and evaluate the psychometric properties of the proposed scale on samples of secondary school and university students. The CRIT was developed and evaluated in two cross-sectional studies with 2044 respondents from Hong Kong and China. Study 1 recruited 1533 secondary school students from Hong Kong with a mean age of 14.91 (SD = 1.77)…
Restorative justice for juvenile offenders in China
In recent decades, restorative justice has gained considerable recognition worldwide and has become a prominent option for diverting juveniles away from the traditional criminal justice system as well as delivering fair and just outcomes in the justice process. This paper provides an overview of how the criminal justice system operates for juvenile offenders in the People’s Republic of China (hereafter, China). Based on a sophisticated literature…
Exploring key risk factors of intimate partner violence among chinese college students
Traditional School Bullying and Cyberbullying Perpetration
Traditional school bullying and cyberbullying are growing concerns worldwide. Research has been devoted to understanding the etiology of bullying behaviors. Using a large sample of secondary school adolescents in Hong Kong ( N = 1,893), this study explores gender differences in mean levels of traditional school bullying (i.e., physical and verbal forms of bullying, and extortion and exclusion) and cyberbullying (i.e., overt and relational aggress…
Restorative justice for delinquents in Hong Kong
In Hong Kong, juvenile justice embraces mainly disciplinary welfare and rehabilitative philosophies. Various statutory measures are applied to juvenile offenders, including police cautioning, community-based treatment programmes and custodial sentencing options. However, no statutory restorative measure has yet been incorporated into the mainstream criminal justice system in Hong Kong. Several non-governmental organisations are developing innovat…
Strains and Delinquency of Migrant Adolescents in China
Migrant youth are widely considered to engage in more delinquency than their local counterparts because they experience more strains, but few studies have empirically examined the delinquency of migrant adolescents in China. This study applied data of 496 local and 667 migrant adolescents in Shenzhen, China, and examined the effect of migrant status on delinquency and the mechanism of how strains contribute to delinquency. The study found that mi…
Coping with cyberbullying victimization
Traditional school bullying and cyberbullying in Chinese societies
Cyberbullying perpetration and victimization among adolescents in Hong Kong
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
School, Parents, and Peer Factors in Relation to Hong Kong Students' Bullying
As school, parents, and peer factors mostly appear separately in different studies of students' bullying, the integration of the factors in a study is necessary to portray a more thorough view. Among the factors, harmony in school, parenting styles, parent-child communication and relationship, and peer pressure tend to be relevant to the study of student's bullying. Such a study surveyed 778 primary and secondary school students in Hong Kong. The…
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…
A Study of Children's Shoplifting Behavior
In the recent years, the rising number of child shoplifters has been alarming in Hong Kong.Although there has been a number of recent studies on delinquency, little has been done in exploring the underlying reasons and processes of shoplifting behavior among children in Hong -Kong.This study intends to investigate 20 shoplifters aged 8 to 12. Based on self-reported data and official criminal records collected, most of the child shoplifters are no…
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…
Pathways to Delinquency in Hong Kong and Guangzhou (South China)
Criminologists have endeavored to incorporate the most promising insights from various sociological perspectives into a single integrated causal model to explain delinquency since the late 1970s. Based on the findings of Western researchers and the writer's own social work experience, an interactional theoretical model is constructed to explain the onset and continuation of delinquency. The model incorporates essential criminogenic factors from s…
Girl Delinquency in Hong Kong
The continuing rise of girl delinquency has recently aroused the attention of the public. However, little of a systemic nature is known of the patterns and causes of girl delinquency in Hong Kong. To uncover the nature of and pathways to girl delinquency, this study interviewed 20 girls, aged 11 to 18. Based on the self-reported data and the official criminal records collected, the study identified three common typologies of girl delinquency, nam…
Changes in Juvenile Justice in China
This article discusses the trend of juvenile and youth crime, which has been on the rise during the past 40 years in China. With the help of literature derived from Chinese policy documents and criminological sources, it highlights the essence of Chinese Marxist criminological thought and the changing conceptions of delinquency from the postrevolutionary period to the present. It also examines official responses to delinquency as well as the rece…
Culturally Specific Causes of Delinquency
Based on the findings of Western researchers and the author's own social work experience, an integrated interactional model is constructed to identify the culturally specific causes of delinquency in Hong Kong. The results of 33 in-depth interviews with delinquents and non-delinquents suggest that reintegrative shaming practices, spirit of brotherhood, and an interdependent social environment are crucial factors pulling or pushing youngsters to o…
Juvenile Crime Prevention in Hong Kong
Victimisation prevention seems to dominate the crime preventing strategies in Hong Kong. These strategies can enhance the social functioning of an individual. A new community care model, which focuses on promoting the relationship of adults and teenagers and emphasises delabelling, is suggested
Cyberbullying perpetration and victimization among adolescents in Hong Kong
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…
Traditional School Bullying and Cyberbullying Perpetration
Traditional school bullying and cyberbullying are growing concerns worldwide. Research has been devoted to understanding the etiology of bullying behaviors. Using a large sample of secondary school adolescents in Hong Kong ( N = 1,893), this study explores gender differences in mean levels of traditional school bullying (i.e., physical and verbal forms of bullying, and extortion and exclusion) and cyberbullying (i.e., overt and relational aggress…
Coping with cyberbullying victimization
Strains and Delinquency of Migrant Adolescents in China
Migrant youth are widely considered to engage in more delinquency than their local counterparts because they experience more strains, but few studies have empirically examined the delinquency of migrant adolescents in China. This study applied data of 496 local and 667 migrant adolescents in Shenzhen, China, and examined the effect of migrant status on delinquency and the mechanism of how strains contribute to delinquency. The study found that mi…
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
Changes in Juvenile Justice in China
This article discusses the trend of juvenile and youth crime, which has been on the rise during the past 40 years in China. With the help of literature derived from Chinese policy documents and criminological sources, it highlights the essence of Chinese Marxist criminological thought and the changing conceptions of delinquency from the postrevolutionary period to the present. It also examines official responses to delinquency as well as the rece…
Culturally Specific Causes of Delinquency
Based on the findings of Western researchers and the author's own social work experience, an integrated interactional model is constructed to identify the culturally specific causes of delinquency in Hong Kong. The results of 33 in-depth interviews with delinquents and non-delinquents suggest that reintegrative shaming practices, spirit of brotherhood, and an interdependent social environment are crucial factors pulling or pushing youngsters to o…
Restorative justice for delinquents in Hong Kong
In Hong Kong, juvenile justice embraces mainly disciplinary welfare and rehabilitative philosophies. Various statutory measures are applied to juvenile offenders, including police cautioning, community-based treatment programmes and custodial sentencing options. However, no statutory restorative measure has yet been incorporated into the mainstream criminal justice system in Hong Kong. Several non-governmental organisations are developing innovat…
Juvenile Crime Prevention in Hong Kong
Victimisation prevention seems to dominate the crime preventing strategies in Hong Kong. These strategies can enhance the social functioning of an individual. A new community care model, which focuses on promoting the relationship of adults and teenagers and emphasises delabelling, is suggested
Juvenile Crime Prevention in Hong Kong
Victimisation prevention seems to dominate the crime preventing strategies in Hong Kong. These strategies can enhance the social functioning of an individual. A new community care model, which focuses on promoting the relationship of adults and teenagers and emphasises delabelling, is suggested
Culturally Specific Causes of Delinquency
Based on the findings of Western researchers and the author's own social work experience, an integrated interactional model is constructed to identify the culturally specific causes of delinquency in Hong Kong. The results of 33 in-depth interviews with delinquents and non-delinquents suggest that reintegrative shaming practices, spirit of brotherhood, and an interdependent social environment are crucial factors pulling or pushing youngsters to o…
Pathways to Delinquency in Hong Kong and Guangzhou (South China)
Criminologists have endeavored to incorporate the most promising insights from various sociological perspectives into a single integrated causal model to explain delinquency since the late 1970s. Based on the findings of Western researchers and the writer's own social work experience, an interactional theoretical model is constructed to explain the onset and continuation of delinquency. The model incorporates essential criminogenic factors from s…
Girl Delinquency in Hong Kong
The continuing rise of girl delinquency has recently aroused the attention of the public. However, little of a systemic nature is known of the patterns and causes of girl delinquency in Hong Kong. To uncover the nature of and pathways to girl delinquency, this study interviewed 20 girls, aged 11 to 18. Based on the self-reported data and the official criminal records collected, the study identified three common typologies of girl delinquency, nam…
Changes in Juvenile Justice in China
This article discusses the trend of juvenile and youth crime, which has been on the rise during the past 40 years in China. With the help of literature derived from Chinese policy documents and criminological sources, it highlights the essence of Chinese Marxist criminological thought and the changing conceptions of delinquency from the postrevolutionary period to the present. It also examines official responses to delinquency as well as the rece…
A Study of Children's Shoplifting Behavior
In the recent years, the rising number of child shoplifters has been alarming in Hong Kong.Although there has been a number of recent studies on delinquency, little has been done in exploring the underlying reasons and processes of shoplifting behavior among children in Hong -Kong.This study intends to investigate 20 shoplifters aged 8 to 12. Based on self-reported data and official criminal records collected, most of the child shoplifters are no…
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…
School, Parents, and Peer Factors in Relation to Hong Kong Students' Bullying
As school, parents, and peer factors mostly appear separately in different studies of students' bullying, the integration of the factors in a study is necessary to portray a more thorough view. Among the factors, harmony in school, parenting styles, parent-child communication and relationship, and peer pressure tend to be relevant to the study of student's bullying. Such a study surveyed 778 primary and secondary school students in Hong Kong. The…
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
Cyberbullying perpetration and victimization among adolescents in Hong Kong
Traditional school bullying and cyberbullying in Chinese societies
Coping with cyberbullying victimization
Restorative justice for delinquents in Hong Kong
In Hong Kong, juvenile justice embraces mainly disciplinary welfare and rehabilitative philosophies. Various statutory measures are applied to juvenile offenders, including police cautioning, community-based treatment programmes and custodial sentencing options. However, no statutory restorative measure has yet been incorporated into the mainstream criminal justice system in Hong Kong. Several non-governmental organisations are developing innovat…
Strains and Delinquency of Migrant Adolescents in China
Migrant youth are widely considered to engage in more delinquency than their local counterparts because they experience more strains, but few studies have empirically examined the delinquency of migrant adolescents in China. This study applied data of 496 local and 667 migrant adolescents in Shenzhen, China, and examined the effect of migrant status on delinquency and the mechanism of how strains contribute to delinquency. The study found that mi…
Traditional School Bullying and Cyberbullying Perpetration
Traditional school bullying and cyberbullying are growing concerns worldwide. Research has been devoted to understanding the etiology of bullying behaviors. Using a large sample of secondary school adolescents in Hong Kong ( N = 1,893), this study explores gender differences in mean levels of traditional school bullying (i.e., physical and verbal forms of bullying, and extortion and exclusion) and cyberbullying (i.e., overt and relational aggress…
Development of the Cybercrime Rapid Identification Tool for Adolescents
Two studies were conducted to support the development of an eight-item Cybercrime Rapid Identification Tool (CRIT) and evaluate the psychometric properties of the proposed scale on samples of secondary school and university students. The CRIT was developed and evaluated in two cross-sectional studies with 2044 respondents from Hong Kong and China. Study 1 recruited 1533 secondary school students from Hong Kong with a mean age of 14.91 (SD = 1.77)…
Restorative justice for juvenile offenders in China
In recent decades, restorative justice has gained considerable recognition worldwide and has become a prominent option for diverting juveniles away from the traditional criminal justice system as well as delivering fair and just outcomes in the justice process. This paper provides an overview of how the criminal justice system operates for juvenile offenders in the People’s Republic of China (hereafter, China). Based on a sophisticated literature…
Exploring key risk factors of intimate partner violence among chinese college students
Desistance from Crime among Chinese Delinquents
Desistance from crime is a popular topic in global criminological research; however, few studies have focused on desistance among delinquent youth, particularly in non-Western societies. This study extends the current knowledge by examining pathways of youth desistance in Hong Kong. Thirty delinquent youth and six parent-child dyads were interviewed, and the study found that filial piety significantly impacts the process of youth desistance. Thre…
Concerns about the meaning of ‘restorative justice’ from a Chinese criminologist’s perspective
The Encounter of Two Worlds
INTRODUCTION: Divided narratives pose long-standing difficulties in physician and patient communication. In decision-making on cancer treatment, divided narratives between physicians and patients hinder mutual understanding and agreement over the illness and its treatment. For effective decision-making on treatments, it is necessary to investigate the similarities and differences in these divided narratives. METHODS: This study adopted a qualitat…
Intimate Partner Violence among Adolescents in Hong Kong
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) among adolescents is a prime public health concern worldwide. Research found that IPV victimization and peers’ IPV perpetration could increase the likelihood of IPV perpetration. In contrast, healthy partner attachment, forgiveness, shame management, and family harmony could serve as protective factors for IPV. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the risk and protective factors of IPV perpetration among adole…
Psychology (19 works) · Criminology (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (9 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (9 works) · Juvenile delinquency (9 works) · Poison control (9 works) · Sociology (9 works)