THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
Congratulations to Dr. Eddie Shuai Wei and Dr. Jianhua Xu for their recent publication on Conducting Criminological Fieldwork in China: A Comprehensive Review and Reflection on Power Relations in the Field, published in Criminology and Criminal Justice.
Congratulations to Dr. Vincent Cheng for his recent publication on The Impact of Later Life Events on Cessation Motivation of Older Adults with Substance Use Disorder in Hong Kong, published in International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology.
Congratulations to our fellows, Dr. Michael Adorjan, Dr. Katie Lowe and Dr. Alexandra Ridgway, for their recent publications. Dr. Lowe and Dr. Ridgway recently published a chapter on “The keepers of secrets: ethics and the emotional labour of working with privileged populations during criminological research” in Dr. Adorjan’s new book, Ethical Dilemmas in International Criminological Research, published by Routledge.
The Centre for Criminology (the “Centre”) is pleased to announce that Dr. Julie Ham (“Dr. Ham”) has been appointed as an Associate Director of the Centre with effect from 1st September 2021.
Dr. Ham’s research is grounded in ongoing engagement with community-based organizations and international networks working for migrant rights, sex worker rights and social change. She has published on domestic work, sex work, anti-trafficking, gender and migration, feminist participatory action research, and activist efforts by trafficking survivors, sex workers and domestic workers. Prior to joining the Department of Sociology, Julie worked with the Border Crossing Observatory (Monash University), the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) and with community-based research projects and organizations in Canada, working with sex workers, immigrant and refugee communities, women substance users, low-income urban communities, and anti-violence organisations.
Her recent research explores knowledge production and cultural production by migrants in Hong Kong through participatory and visual methodologies. For more information, see Mobile Methodologies and Migrant Knowledges.
Editorial of the special section of the International Journal of Drug Policy, by our Centre Director Professor Karen Joe Laidler.
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The Asian region is marked by a high number of killings that are carried out in the name of the war on drugs. Several countries retain the death penalty for drug offences, and there are also numerous extra-judicial killings of people who use drugs, especially in the Philippines. This special section of the International Journal of Drug Policy will build on work presented at the first Asian regional meeting of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy, where several papers on such killings were presented.
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