Ka-ki HO/Lawrence Associate Professor
Ka-ki HO/Lawrence
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+886-2-7749-1854
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Teacher Field
Comparative civic and democratic education; political development in East Asia; policing, criminal justice and public policy; transdisciplinary studies. All courses are taught in English (EMI), draw on comparative cases from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and beyond, and bring in international classroom partnerships and visiting scholars.
Teacher Pro
Comparative policing and criminal justice (Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan); police legitimacy and tacit knowledge; private policing and immigration enforcement; East Asian public policy; sociology of sport
School Year Paper Title
115 State-anchored commodification: Hybrid security governance and the evolution of private policing in Hong Kong
115 Work-integrated learning in non-professional degrees: Evidence from twelve cohorts of social sciences internships in Hong Kong
115 Illicit Parallel Trading, Regime of Permission, and Legality: A Comparative Analysis in the Southern Chinese Seaboard
115 Book Review: “Munn, C. 2025. Penalties of Empire: Capital Trials in Colonial Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press”
114 Conversion and Drift of Traditional Institutions under Democratization: Case of the 'Evolved' Household Registration System in Taiwan
109 Legitimization & De-Legitimization of Police: In British Colonial and Chinese SAR Hong Kong
105 'Indigenous' or 'All Starts': Discourses on the 'Team Hong Kong' in FIFA Tournament
103 Transformation of Macau Policing: From Portuguese Colony to China's SAR.
114 Cash Transfer, Economic Relief & Social Equity in COVID-19: The Equity Turn of Developmentalism in East Asian Regimes?
114 Sociology of Sports after Post COVID-19 Hong Kong: Individual Behavior, Organizational Dynamics & Business Opportunities
111 China Strategic Partnership with Russia amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
111 Environmental Collaboration within a Country? Tackling Cross-border Electronic Waste Movement between Mainland China and Hong Kong
109 Fighting COVID-19 in Hong Kong: The effects of community and social mobilization
109 Patterns of collective action during the 2019 protests in Hong Kong: policing, social identity, intergroup dynamics, and radicalisation
109 Rethinking Police Legitimacy in Post-colonial Hong Kong: Paramilitary Policing in Protest Management
109 High Level of (Passive) Compliance in a Low-trust Society: Hong Kong Citizens’ Response towards the COVID-19 Lockdown
110 Government-Society in Confrontation: Protests Policing in Post-Colonial China’s Hong Kong SAR
110 A Whole-of-Nation Approach to COVID-19: Taiwan’s National Epidemic Prevention Team
111 Professionalism vs Democracy? Historical and Institutional Analysis of Police Oversight Mechanism in Three Asian Jurisdictions
111 Explaining confidence in the police within transitional Hong Kong: the influence of postmaterial values
112 Community Policing and COVID-19 Management: Perspectives of Frontline Law Enforcers in Taiwan
112 Policing Re-centralization or Decentralization? A Study of State Responses in England & Hong Kong during COVID-19. Policing: Journal of Policy and Practice. Policing: A Journal of Policy & Practice
112 Empowerment and capacity of external police oversight: The paradox of the Control Yuan in Taiwan
113 What Has Changed and Why: The Transformation and (De) Legitimisation of Post-COVID Policing in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
113 Book Review of “LO, Ming-Cheng M., Yu-Yueh TSAI, and Michael Shiyung LIU (eds.). 2024. Taiwan’s COVID-19 Experience: Governance, Governmentality, and the Global Pandemic. London: Routledge”.
113 What does ‘Legitimate Policing’ mean in the Context of Authoritarian Regimes?
School Year Paper Title
School Year Project Name Job Title Period Cooperation
115 Before the Civic Lens Fixes: Diverse Civic Backgrounds and Undergraduate Encounters with Comparative Policing and Institutional Authority Principal Investigator 2026-08~2027-07 Research Development Office, NTNU
115 Safety Taken for Granted? Tacit Policing Knowledge and Citizen Expectations in Democratic Taiwan 計劃主持人 2026-07~2028-06 國科會
115 From Practicum to Profession? A Comparative Study of Teacher Education Partnerships and Career Trajectories in Taiwan and the UK Principal Investigator 2026-02~2027-01 College of Education, University of Glasgow, UK
Year Book Name Publish Date
101 Ho, Lawrence Ka-ki, Chu YK (2012) Policing Hong Kong 1842-1969: Insiders Stories 2012
103 Chan O. T., Ho, Lawrence Ka-ki & CHU, Y. K. (2014) The Social Life in the Hollywood Road Police Married Quarters (in Chinese) Hong Kong: The Commercial Press, Hong Kong. 200 pages. 2014
104 Chan, Annie H. N. & Ho, Lawrence Ka-ki (2015) Transformation of Hong Kong Policewomen in Sixty Years. (in Chinese). Hong Kong: The Commercial Press, Hong Kong, 250 pages http://publish.commercialpress.com.hk/b5_book_detail.php?id=7516 2015
106 Chan, Annie H. N., Ho, Lawrence Ka-ki (2017) Women in the Hong Kong Police Force: Organizational Culture, Gender and Colonial Policing. Basingtoke: Palgrave, 342 pages. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/978-1-349-95281- 2017
109 Ho, Lawrence Ka-ki, & Lam, Agnes I. F. (2020) Policing from Colonized to Decolonized Territories in Greater China: Hong Kong & Macau (In Chinese) Chung Wah Book Store (Hong Kong), https://www.chunghwabook.com.hk/Index/book_detail/id/2872.html 2020
111 Lam C. Y. & Ho, Lawrence Ka-ki (2022) Hong Kong Ambulencemen: History and Transformation (in Chinese). Chung Hua (Hong Kong) Book Store. 2022
110 Ho, Lawrence Ka-ki, Chan, J. K. H., den Heyer, G., Hsu, J. S., & Hirai, A. (2021) Policing the Police in Asia: Police Oversight in Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Springer Brief Series in Criminology- Policing. Springer Nature 2021
113 Zuser, Tobias & Ho, Lawrence Ka-ki. (eds.) (2024) Sport in Hong Kong: Culture, Identity and Policy. Peter Lang. 2024
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101 Outstanding Teaching Award for Early Career Faculties Lingnan University (Hong Kong)
106 Certificate of Merit of Teaching Faculty of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, The Education University of Hong Kong
School Name Country Department Degree Period
The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Faculty of Arts Bachelor of Arts 1993~1996
The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Department of Politics and Public Administration Master of Philosophy 1996~2001
The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Department of Sociology Doctor of Philosophy 2003~2010
Organization Name Unit Position Period
Lingnan University (Hong Kong) Department of Political Science Teaching Fellow, Senior Teaching Fellow, Senior Tutor of Residential Hall 2009~2012
The Education University of Hong Kong Department of Social Sciences and Policy Studies Lecturer, Assistant Professor 2012~2025
University of Macau Center of Macau Studies Adjunct Assistant Professor 2024~2025
The University of Hong Kong Center for Criminology Center Fellow 2006~2025