The Impact of the Correctional Ecosystem on Bullying Victimization Among Incarcerated Juvenile Offenders in Taiwan
The Impact of the Correctional Ecosystem on Bullying Victimization Among Incarcerated Juvenile Offenders in Taiwan
Yung-Lien Lai Ching-Wei Liu Yu-Hsuan Liu Tzu-Ying Lo a National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwanb Central Police University, Taoyuan, Taiwanc St. John’s University, Queens, USAYung-Lien Lai, Ph.D., is a Professor of Criminology at National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan. He earned his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Sam Houston State University in 2011. Before entering academia, he spent a decade working in the correctional system of Taiwan and the Ministry of Justice. His research focuses on corrections authority legitimacy, prison misconduct and victimization, offender rehabilitation and reentry, recidivism assessment, and comparative criminal justice. He currently leads a nationally funded research project on the application of artificial intelligence and empirical risk assessment to parole decision making and early release programs. He also serves as a correctional policy advisor to the Agency of Corrections in Taiwan. Over the past 15 years, Dr Lai has published more than 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals, contributing Taiwanese and Asian perspectives to global criminology and evidence-based criminal justice policy. His recent work has appeared in Deviant Behavior, Journal of Criminology, Journal of Crime and Justice, Policing: An International Journal, Asian Journal of Criminology, and International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology.Ching Wei Liu, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Police Administration at Central Police University Taiwan. Dr Liu earned her PhD in Crime Prevention and Corrections from Central Police University in 2023. Before joining the university as a full-time faculty member, she accumulated more than ten years of extensive frontline policing experience. Her research interests include law enforcement legitimacy, police operations, police-community relations, and policing policy. Her scholarly work has appeared in peer-reviewed Chinese-language journals, including the Police Science Journal and the Collection of Papers on Criminal Policy and Crime Prevention.Yu Hsuan Liu, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Homeland Security at St. John’s University. He earned his PhD in Criminal Justice from the Graduate Center City University of New York. His research interests include big data analytics, crime mapping, natural language processing, and juvenile victimization. His work leverages innovative data sources such as Google Trends and digital trace data to advance crime measurement and public safety policy evaluation. His research has been published in journals such as the Journal of Criminal Justice, Victims and Offenders, Deviant Behavior, Crime Science, Methodological Innovations in Social Science Research, and the Journal of Human Trafficking. He is a recipient of the Outstanding Dissertation Award from John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the James Fyfe Fellowship.Tzu Ying Lo, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Homeland Security at St. John’s University. She earned her PhD in Criminal Justice from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. Her research focuses on the victim-offender overlap in juvenile justice, corrections, and policing. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals including the Journal of Criminal Justice, Victims and Offenders, Policing: An International Journal of Police Practice and Research, Crime Science, the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, and Deviant Behavior. Before her academic career, she served for over a decade as a law enforcement officer in Taiwan, attaining the rank of Senior Investigator, equivalent to Lieutenant Colonel in the Criminal Investigation Bureau.