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General Information

• Position: Associate Professor & ·¬ÇÑÉçÇø Director of Criminal Justice
• E-mail: chlin@lamar.edu
• Phone: 409-880-8339
• Office: Maes 58A

Education

• Ph.D. Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University, Texas, 2003
• M.A. Department of Sociology, San Diego State University, California, 1997
• B.A. Department of Sociology, Catholic Fu Jen University, Taipei, Taiwan, 1991

University, Professional, and Community Services

• University Services
  • 2022 – present  President, Faculty Senate 
  • 2020 – 2022       Vice President, Faculty Senate
  • 2011 – 2022       Faculty Senate Executive committee
  • 2007 – present  Alpha Phi Sigma, Criminal Justice Honor Society ·¬ÇÑÉçÇø Chapter, Advisor
• Professional Services
  • 2009 – 2012      SSA Executive committee
  • 2009 – present  SSSA Budget and Financial Policies (representative for SSA)
• Community Services
  • 2010 – present  Elected Board Member to Institute of Chinese Culture, Houston, Texas
  • 2007 – 2009      Executive Secretary to President of the Taiwanese Chamber of Commerce of North America
  • 2012 – present  Guest to Texas Chinese Radio station (AM 1050) and Southern Chinese Daily News Group: International Television (KTBU, itv-Houston)

Recent Research

• Grandparenting: implication on grandparents’ health and  grandchildren (deviant) behavior
• Female labor participation in China: Causes and Implications
• Asian Mafia in the 21^st century
• Juvenile Deviant behavior and Delinquency in Southern Taiwan
• Evaluation Research of Summer Computing Workshop at ·¬ÇÑÉçÇø University

Selected Publications

Jiangjiang Liu, Cheng-Hsien Lin, Joshua Wilson, David Hemmenway, Ethan P. Hasson, Zebulum D. Barnett, and Yingbo Xu. (2014) “Making Games a “Snap” with Stencyl: A Summer Computing Workshop for K-12 Teachers.” 45th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education Proceedings (SIGCSE 2014).

Cheng-Hsien Lin (2013). “Countervailing Effects of Parental Monitoring on Teenage Deviance.” Journal of Knowledge and Best Practices in Juvenile Justice and Psychology. Vol. 7, (1). pp 65-74.

Jiangjiang Liu, Cheng-Hsien Lin, Phillip Potter, Ethan P. Hasson, Zebulum D. Barnett, and Michael Singleton, (2013). “Going Mobile with App Inventor for Android – A One-Week Computing Workshop for K-12 Teachers,” 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2013), pp. 433-438.

Jiangjiang Liu, Cheng-Hsien Lin, Ethan P. Hasson, and Zebulum.D. Barnett, (2012). “Computer Science Learning made Interactive – A One-Week Alice Summer Computing Workshop for K-12 Teachers,” Proc. 42nd Annual IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE 2012), pp. 128-133, Seattle, WA, Oct. 3-6.

Lin, Cheng-Hsien, Jiangjiang Liu, Ethan P. Hasson and Zebulum D. Barnett. (2011). “A Computing Workshop for Updating Middle School Computer Science ·¬ÇÑÉçÇøs” Proc. International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED 2011), pp. 1104-1109, Valencia, Spain, March 7-9. ISBN: 978-84-614-7423-3

Liu, Jiangjiang, Cheng-Hsien Lin, Ethan P. Hasson, and Zebulun D. Barnett. (2011). “Introducing Computer Science to K-12 through a Summer Computing Workshop for Teachers.” Proc. 42nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2011).

Lin, Cheng-Hsien and Howard B. Kaplan. (2011). “The Intergenerational Transmission of Self-Efficacy: The Mediating Influence of Coercive Parenting and Educational Attainment.” International Journal of Sociological Research.  Vol. 4 (1).   ISBN: 0974-8393

Lin, Cheng-Hsien, Gary Coulton and Howard B. Kaplan. (2010). “Does Work Stress Affect Adolescents' Substance Use?” International Journal of Sociological Research, 3 (1-2), pp. 65-80.