Policing the Pearl: Historical Transformations of Law Enforcement in Hong Kong
| Date | 01 September 2008 |
| DOI | 10.1350/ijps.2008.10.3.90 |
| Published date | 01 September 2008 |
| Author | Suzanne Sutphin,Mathieu Deflem,Richard Featherstone,Yunqing Li |
| Subject Matter | Article |
Policing the Pearl: historical
transformations of law enforcement in
Hong Kong
Mathieu Deflem‡, Richard Featherstone†, Yunqing Li§and Suzanne
Sutphin¥
‡(Corresponding author) University of South Carolina, Department of Sociology, Sloan
College 217, 911 Pickens Street, Columbia, SC 29208, USA. Tel: (803) 777 6596; email:
deflem@sc.edu
†University of Northern Iowa, 356 Baker Hall, Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0513, USA. Tel: (319)
273 6497; email: richard.featherstone@uni.edu
§Center for Health Statistics, New Jersey Dept. of Health & Senior Services, 171 Jersey
St., Building 5, 2nd Flr., PO Box 360, Trenton, NJ 08625 0360, USA. Tel: (609) 984 7304;
email: yunqing.li@doh.state.nj.us
¥222 Sloan College, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA. Tel: (803) 777
9013; email: sutphist@mailbox.sc.edu
Received 12 June 2007; accepted 20 November 2007
Keywords: Hong Kong, police, colonial policing, police culture, police
management
Mathieu Deflem
is Associate Professor of
Sociology at the University of South Carolina,
Columbia, USA. His research interests include
counterterrorism, international police coopera-
tion, abortion policy, and theory, amongst others.
He is the author of Sociology of Law (2008) and
Policing World Society (2002), and the editor of
Surveillance and Governance (2008), Sociolo-
gists in a Global Age (2007), Sociological Theory
and Criminological Research (2006), Habermas,
Modernity and Law (1996), and Terrorism and
Counter-Terrorism (2004).
Richard Featherstone
is an Associate Professor
of Criminology and Sociology at the University of
Northern Iowa. His most recent research focuses
on the connection between family process vari-
ables and juvenile delinquency. He is also work-
ing with local law enforcement on a crime
mapping project in Black Hawk County, Iowa.
Yunqing Li
is a senior researcher of older adult
health and ageing issues in New Jersey in the
Center for Health Statistics, New Jersey Depart-
ment of Health and Senior Services. She holds a
doctoral degree in sociology with expertise in the
area of health and ageing. Dr Li’s recent research
on social integration and well-being of older
adults appeared in Journal of Health and Social
Behavior and Social Forces. Her current work
focuses on a multi-level analysis of the associ-
ation between acculturation and health risk fac-
tors among New Jersey immigrants.
Suzanne Sutphin
is an adjunct professor at the
University of South Carolina. Her research inter-
ests are in the area of social inequality, specific-
ally, race, class and gender. Currently, she is
involved in a qualitative study to examine the role
of the police during Hurricane Katrina.
A
BSTRACT
In this article we discuss historical patterns and
dynamics of policing in Hong Kong since the
formation of the first police force in the then
British colony in 1844 until the handover to
China in 1997 when a policy of ‘one country,
two systems’ was implemented. We specifically
International Journal of Police Science & Management Volume 10 Number 3
International Journal of Police
Science and Management,
Vol. 10 No. 3, 2008, pp. 349–356.
DOI: 10.1350/ijps.2008.10.3.90
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