Clifton

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Prof. EMERY Clifton

Associate Professor

Prof. Emery is Associate Professor of Social Work and Social Administration at the University of Hong Kong. He is an academic, a social worker, and a statistician. His approach to research and scholarship brings empirical and theoretical rigor to the study of conflict and its resolution in the context of power disparities. His work focuses primarily on abuse and violence against women, children, and refugees.

Prof. Emery has carried out survey research in the US, China, South Korea, Hong Kong, Spain, Russia, Vietnam, Mongolia, Nepal, and on North Korean refugees. His areas of research include (1) an investigation of the mechanisms that underlie the relationship between informal social control and child maltreatment and intimate partner violence, (2) development and testing of a new theory of the lived experience of child maltreatment and polyvictimization, (3) development of research, policy and practice to better protect women from intimate partner violence based on his theory of totalitarian, despotic, tolerant, conflict, and anarchic types of IPV.

Prof. Emery is the Academic Expert for Help for Children Asia Branch and guides the organization’s grant making.  He is the Associate Editor for Child Abuse & Neglect (IF = 2.569, h5-index = 59, ranked 1 in social work by Google Scholar). He is currently the PI for a GRF longitudinal study of informal social control, child maltreatment, and adolescent substance addiction among mothers and adolescent children in a representative sample of Nepal. He is also the PI for a Save the Children study of online victimization among 2,000 Hong Kong school children. Dr. Emery has been an expert witness in three countries and an advisor to the South Korean Ministry of Justice.

Publications

  • Emery, C.R., Wu, S., & Chan, K.L. (2018). A comparative study of totalitarian style partner control in Seoul and Beijing: Confucian sex role norms, secrecy, and missing data. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, DOI: 10.1177/0886260518787208
  • Emery, C.R., Yoo, J., Lieblich, A., Hansen, R. (2018). After the escape: Physical abuse of offspring, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and the legacy of physical violence in the DPRK. Violence Against Women, 24(9), 999-1022.
  • Emery, C.R. (2017). The challenge of construct fundamentalism: CSA as invasive exploitation? Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma, 10(1), 87-93.
  • Emery, C.R., Wu, S., Kim, O., Pyun, C. & Chin, W. (2017). Protective family informal social control of intimate partner violence in Beijing. Psychology of Violence, 7(4), 553-562.
  • Emery, C.R., Trung, H.N., & Wu, S. (2015). Neighborhood informal social control and child maltreatment: A comparison of protective and punitive approaches. Child Abuse & Neglect, 41, 158-169.

Externally funded research

  • PI. Korea Research Foundation Young Faculty Grant. 2015. Principal investigator of “Mental Health and Online Social Support: Friend or Foe? Depression, PTSD and On versus Off-line Informal Social Network Support.” 10,000,000 KRW.
  • Co-I. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Partnership Development Grant. 2014-2015. Co-Investigator of “Migrants, Refugees & the International State System,” (Randall Hansen PI, 890-2013-0043). $191,092 CAD.