Key Research Areas
- Chinese organised crime
- Corruption and criminal justice
- Youth work and youth justice
- Community-based corrections and offenders' rehabilitation
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Core Areas of Expertise
Prof. Lo’s expertise centres on Chinese organised crime, corruption and criminal justice, youth justice and youth work, community‑based corrections and offenders’ rehabilitation. His work integrates criminology and social work, with recent publications extending to substance abuse, caregiver support models, and counselling approaches.
Recent Publications
2026
- Comparing Project Careerpillar and traditional career services in Hong Kong: Using a randomized controlled trial.
- Online ethnography: A research methodology for reaching hard-to-reach groups in the contemporary era.
- Involving caregivers of older people in qualitative evaluation research: Examining the “caregiver support project” in Hong Kong.
- A mixed methods analysis of political graffiti: Demonstrating integration through joint display using Lennon Wall Hong Kong as an example.
2025
- The effectiveness of Project Careerpillar in enhancing youths’ self and career development.
- The caregiver support model for informal caregivers of frail older adults: Randomized controlled trial.
- Chinese triads and the notion of territory.
2024
- Effective sanction avoidance in drug trafficking: The construction and validation of the Restrictive Deterrence Utility Scale using a sample of female drug offenders.
- Effectiveness of the caregiver support model for informal caregivers of frail older adults in Hong Kong: A clustered randomized controlled trial.
- Triad influence on the detection of crime in Hong Kong.
- Research design and overview of drug abuse situations in Hong Kong.
- Literature review on drug abuse research.
- The Five-stage framework of drug abuse.
- Drug dealing and trafficking.
- Specific drug-related topics.
- Semi-structured interviews with substance users in Hong Kong.
- Rehabilitation Services for Elderly Prisoners in Hong Kong.
- Prisoners’ perceived violence and hair regulation in Hong Kong prisons: Gender-based differences.
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