Professor Trent M. Bax awarded the ‘Allen Austin Bartholomew Award’
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Professor Trent M. Bax of the Sociology Department received the ‘Allen Austin Bartholomew Award.’
The ‘Allen Austin Bartholomew Award’ is given annually to the best article published in ‘The Journal of Criminology’ (formerly called ‘The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology’), which is the principal journal of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology. SAGE Publications provide sponsorship for this award.
Professor Bax received this award for his research paper about former users of methamphetamine (a.k.a. Philopon) in Aotearoa/New Zealand. The selected paper is titled 「The life-course of methamphetamine users in Aotearoa/New Zealand: School, friendship and work」.
Professor Bax is undergoing a life-course qualitative study of former methamphetamine users in Aotearoa/New Zealand. This particular paper uses interactional theory to analyze the interviewees’ school, friendship, and work experiences. He examined the pathway of drug use by understanding the effect school, friendship, and work exert on drug use, and also the effect drug use exerts on the school, friendship and work. And he analyzed the circumstantial contexts and interpersonal factors that influence the process of drug use. This research emphasized the importance of the education arena, especially high school, in altering drug use trajectories.
Professor Bax graduated from the University of Waikato in Aotearoa/New Zealand, received his Master’s and PhD degree at the University of Hong Kong, and was appointed to Ewha in 2012. His major research field is the sociology of deviance, and he has published various papers on China, including irregular migration, China’s service industry, internet addiction among Chinese adolescents etc. He has also published research on various topics in South Korea, including psychosocially problematic internet use, juvenile delinquency, desistance from crime and bullying and violence.