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Autor:
Wing Hong Chui, Kevin Kwok-Yin Cheng
Publikováno v:
International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, Vol 22, Iss 1, Pp 57-67 (2017)
Criminal attitudes have been found to influence criminal behaviour. Yet this is an understudied area in Hong Kong despite the scholarly interests in youth delinquency. In this study, we tested the relationship between criminal sentiments and social f
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/c650e969214d41ceaec8a21dda3d4352
Publikováno v:
Asian Journal of Comparative Law. 17:167-190
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 o
Autor:
Sayaka Ri, Kevin Kwok-yin Cheng
Publikováno v:
Asian Journal of Criminology. 17:237-261
Publikováno v:
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. 17:580-614
Analyzing sentencing disparity calls for more calibrated measures to capture the nuances of judicial discretion within jurisdictions that adopt strict sentencing guidelines. This article uses an unconventional outcome variable, percent deviation, to
Publikováno v:
Punishment & Society. 22:617-636
Legal and criminology scholars have devoted a great deal of attention towards measuring public confidence in the courts and sentencing. However, little is known about how attitudes toward sentencing relate to the more complex concept of legitimacy. D
Autor:
Kevin Kwok-yin Cheng, Wing Hong Chui
Publikováno v:
The Prison Journal. 99:614-635
Using a Hong Kong–sourced sample of participants, this study set out to validate the Chinese version of the Attitudes Toward Prisoners (ATP-C) Scale and evaluate its psychometric properties. To provide further evidence for the ATP-C Scale’s valid
Publikováno v:
The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice. 58:143-160
Pre‐trial detention plays an important, and often contentious, role in the criminal justice process. Legal theorists have gone to great lengths to distinguish between preventive detention and punishment with respect to pre‐trial detention, as it
Where do lawyers look to when they wish to ascertain what the law is on a particular matter? This chapter goes over the various sources of law in Hong Kong. It starts at the top with the Basic Law, which is sometimes referred to as the ‘mini-consti
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::d3a358207859c4c92adb5c924f481bcb
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108634687.007
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108634687.007
Autor:
Kevin Kwok-yin Cheng
Publikováno v:
Common Law World Review. 47:136-149
‘Cracked trials’ have been identified as a major problem in the criminal justice process, causing wastage of resources and time for all parties involved. The sliding scale of sentence discounts was implemented in England and Wales to tackle the p