Research Student
Working toward a PhD in Laws, expected 2024
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The Social Investigation Scheme in China’s Juvenile Justice System, co-supervised by Professors Kevin Cheng and Michelle Miao.
I am interested in criminology, criminal justice, empirical legal research and socio-legal studies in China. With my thesis, I hope to systematically demonstrate the social investigation scheme in China’s juvenile criminal justice system, with an emphasis on qualitative social science research methods, like participant observation and semi-structured interview. I intend to discuss what is the rationale behind this scheme from the perspectives of judges, community correction officers and social workers, and explore the reasons behind their different understandings.
- He, C & Liu, J (2024). Pressuring defendants into plead guilty: A mainland China/Hong Kong comparison. In E Li, X Yuan, Y Zhang (eds), Criminal Case Dispositions through Pleas in Greater China: Conception, Operation and Contradiction. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Cheng, K. K., Ri, S., & He, C. (2023). Judges’ characteristics and sentencing in Hong Kong. Criminology & Criminal Justice.
- He, C., & Luo, X. (2023). Life sharing or crimes sharing: an investigation on crime learning from China short-form video platforms. Information & Communications Technology Law, 32(2), 240-258.
- ‘The Social Worker in China’s Juvenile Criminal Justice System: Opportunities and Challenges’, the17th Annual Conference of The European China Law Studies Association (Helsinki, 20-22 September 2023).
- ‘From Risk Assessment to Rehabilitation: The Social Investigation in China’s Juvenile Criminal Justice System’, British Society of Criminology Conference 2023 (Preston, 27-30 June 2023).
- ‘The Application of the Risk-Needs-Responsivity Model in China’s Juvenile Criminal Justice System’, at the Training Initiative for Asian Law & Society Scholars Workshop (Singapore, 9-12 January 2023).
- ‘Life Sharing or Crimes Sharing: An Investigation on Crime Learning from China Short-Form Video Platforms’, at the 3rd Machine Lawyering Conference: Legal Innovation in the Digital Society (Hong Kong, 18-19 February 2022).
Education
- Master of Laws in International Economic Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2020.
- Bachelor of Law, The National Police University for Criminal Justice, China, 2019.
Awards
- CUHK Reaching Out Award 2021-2022.