Becky is interested in studying the criminal justice system in Hong Kong, with a heavy emphasis on both qualitative and quantitative analysis. With her thesis, she hopes to investigate how and why defendants with mental disorders are receiving successive disadvantaged outcomes throughout the entire criminal adjudicative process. While sentencing is an integral part of the criminal justice system, the extant literature had a strong emphasis on statistical analysis of archival data and mostly explained sentence disparities by studying sentence outcomes alone. The aim of this research is to expand the scope of current literature by identifying any particular groups of defendants who receive multiple disadvantaged outcomes throughout the criminal process, and to explain such phenomenon using a mixed method approach combining courtroom observations and semi-structured interviews.