CDPGPChinese Drug Policy & Governance Platform
Publications

Articles.

2026

  1. Li, D. ‘I got caught, but I’m not a loser’: Moral economy and arrest narratives in China’s heroin trade. Theoretical Criminology.View article ↗
  2. Li, D. Negotiating survival and dignity: The meaning of work among people formerly incarcerated for drug offenses in China. Criminal Justice & Behavior.View article ↗
  3. Li, D., & Wang, D. Efficient versus effectiveness: Performance and detachment in prison-based ideological reform—evidence from China. Criminology & Criminal Justice.View article ↗
  4. Li, D. Re-storying punishment: How China’s long-term ex-heroin dealers turn emotional fissures into moral narratives. Punishment & Society.View article ↗
  5. Huang, W., Qu, J., & Chen, X. Not all screen time is equal: Cultivated unstructured socializing and cyber delinquency among incarcerated male youths in China. Youth & Society.
  6. Song, A. & Chen, S. ‘Stigmatisation for poppers use is a sexualised mode of governance’: Lived experiences and counter-narratives of gay men who use poppers in mainland China. International Journal of Drug Policy, 152, 105277.View article ↗
  7. Song, A. ‘New Barefoot Doctors’: How social workers navigate HIV care and structural marginality in Yi ethnic minority communities. Social Science & Medicine, 403, 119356.View article ↗
  8. Sun, G., Jiang, J., & Song, A. Rehabilitation frames: How offenders understand and navigate the penal-welfare nexus in Chinese community corrections. Crime, Media, Culture.View article ↗
  9. Song, A. & Tong, Y. Weak chemsex as cultural scripts: Understanding how Chinese gay men narrate sexualised drug use. Sexualities.View article ↗
  10. Song, A. & Jiang, J. Pride and prejudice: Strategic coupling of punishment and welfare in Chinese community corrections. Theoretical Criminology.View article ↗
  11. Tong, Y., Song, A., & Su, Z. ‘We’re Experiencing Digital Death’: Chinese people who used heroin in community-based rehabilitation. Social Inclusion, 14.View article ↗
  12. Song, A., Ma, L., & Liu, Z. Revisiting professional autonomy and structural constraints: Relational work in anti-drug social work. International Social Work.View article ↗
  13. Song, A. & He, J. ‘Be Mom, for Mom’: Anti-authority recovery narratives of females who use drugs in China. Contemporary Drug Problems.View article ↗
  14. Song, A. & Jiang, J. Surviving in the cracks: How people who use drugs navigate police-led rehabilitation in China. Journal of Drug Issues.View article ↗
  15. Song, A., He, J., & Cui, K. From legal estrangement to legal mobilization: Navigating the processual professional autonomy of antidrug social workers in China. The British Journal of Social Work.View article ↗
  16. Song, A., Dertadian, G. C., & He, J. Recovery capital in Chinese drug rehabilitation: Exploring person-centred and community-based perspectives. Drug and Alcohol Review, 45(1), e70088.View article ↗

2025

  1. Liu, L., Wang, X., & Li, X. Conventional and Electronic Cigarettes Consumption among Young Chinese Adults: A Perspective on Masculinity and Gender System. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 23(1), 219–235.
  2. Liu, L., & Wang, X. Is Electronic Cigarette More Healthy than Conventional Cigarette? Perceptions, Experiences, and Social Norm Constructions among Chinese Young Adult Vapers. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 1–22.
  3. Liu, Z. The social construction of privacy rights: Spatial games and normative negotiation in online dating. Sociological Studies, 3.
  4. He, J., Liu, J., & Song, A. ‘It’s time … to end everything’: Discontinue medication choices and narratives among elderly HIV-positive Yi women. Social Science & Medicine, 383, 118450.View article ↗
  5. Song, A. & Tong, Y. Digitalising violence: Decoding management in the rehabilitation of people who use drugs. Punishment & Society.View article ↗
  6. Song, A. & He, J. Framing ‘Chemsexism’: Chinese gay men navigating stigma and labelling. Journal of Homosexuality.View article ↗
  7. Song, A., He, J., & Liu, Z. Systemic neglect hidden behind tolerance: The reproduction of vulnerability among aging heroin users within community-based rehabilitation. Innovation in Aging, 9(8), igaf066.View article ↗
  8. Song, A. & Jiang, J. Coercive rehabilitation and therapeutic control: How the police navigate the penal-welfare nexus in Chinese drug governance. Policing & Society, 35(9), 1203–1218.View article ↗
  9. Jiang, J. & Song, A. Making the enforcement rehabilitative: Penal welfarism and emotional labor of police officers in Chinese drug policing. Criminology & Criminal Justice.View article ↗
  10. Song, A. & He, J. ‘Nothing but…stuff being played with’: Body-constructed narratives of drug-trafficking young girls. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse.View article ↗
  11. Song, A., Li, K., Han, P., & Yao, H. Tracing, stabilizing, storytelling: How social workers assemble recovery for people who have mental health disorders. Journal of Social Work.View article ↗

2024

  1. Li, D. From phenomenology to structural hermeneutics: Rethinking and integrating paradigms of meaning inquiry—with reflections on qualitative crime research. Journal of the People’s Public Security University of China (Social Sciences Edition), 5.
  2. Li, D. Lost on the road to prosperity: Trajectories to drug dealing of the Chinese heroin generation. Critical Criminology, 32, 687–705.View article ↗
  3. Huang, W., Chen, X., & Wu, Y. Education fever and adolescent deviance in China. Crime & Delinquency.
  4. Song, A., Zhu, C., & Liu, Z. ‘No ability to choose freedom’: A qualitative study on people who use drugs’ experiences of compulsory isolation treatment. Addiction Research & Theory.View article ↗
  5. Jiang, J., & Song, A. Strong control and weak service: Enforcing drug treatment in China. Journal of Drug Issues, 55(3), 379–400.View article ↗
  6. Song, A. Multiple logics and inconsistent identities of people who use drugs. PKU Journal of Sociology, 3(1), 90.

2023

  1. Yuan, X., & Liu, L. Non-compliance or what? An empirical inquiry into the regulatory pyramid of Chinese drug users. Asian Journal of Criminology, 18, 155–170.
  2. Liu, Z. Relational work and value production: An analysis of the labour process in bar marketing. Sociological Studies, 4.
  3. Li, D. The development and multiple possibilities of narrative analysis in the sociology of crime. Criminal Research, 3.
  4. Huang, W., & Zou, W. ‘Them’ in an abnormal world: Media construction and responsibility attribution of left-behind children in rural China. Children & Society.
  5. Huang, W., Chen, X., & Wu, Y. Tough or no love? Parental migration and children’s exposure to corporal punishment and neglect in rural China. Victims & Offenders.

Before 2022

  1. Liu, L., Chui, W. H., & Hu, Y. In the name of love: Narrative analysis of a Chinese single mother’s rational and emotional pathways into and out of crime. Asian Journal of Social Science, 50(4), 276–283.
  2. Liu, Z. Pursuing individualism without feminism. The British Journal of Sociology, 1–13.
  3. Li, D., & Song, A. Drug use disorder and family politics evolution: How can Chinese PWUD families quit drugs? Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 23, 586–611.View article ↗
  4. Liu, L., Chui, W. H., & Deng, Y. Driving after alcohol consumption: A qualitative analysis among Chinese male drunk drivers. International Journal of Drug Policy, 90, 103058.
  5. 刘柳：《谁是下一个崔雪莉？中国大学生眼中的网络欺凌》，《中国网络传播研究》第18辑，第210–224页。
  6. Li, D. The rise and implications of cultural criminology: An examination of developments in Western criminological theory. Journal of the People’s Public Security University of China (Social Sciences Edition), 4.
  7. Liu, L., Chui, W. H., Deng, Y., & Li, H. Dealing with resistance: Working with involuntary clients in community-based drug treatment programmes in China. Australian Social Work, 73(3), 309–320.
  8. Liu, Z. Why workers’ turnover is so high: Managed flexibility and the intermediary chain of China’s migrant labour market. The Journal of Chinese Sociology, 8.
  9. Li, D. The limits of practising freedom: Constructing subjectivity in offender rehabilitation. Journal of Shandong Police College, 3.
  10. 刘柳、陈云松、张亮亮：《定量群学三十年：以〈社会学研究〉论文为例》，《江苏行政学院学报》第2期，第75–84页（2018）。
  11. Liu, L., Hsiao, S. C., & Kaplan, C. Drug initiation of female detainees in a compulsory drug treatment institution in China. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 48(5), 393–401 (2016).
  12. 刘柳：《预防女性弱势群体犯罪：基于福利三角理论的社会政策研究》，《中国行政管理》第11期，第105–109页（2015）。
  13. 刘柳：《监狱中的“关系”——女犯人和狱警的相处之道》，《青年研究》第2期，第38–47页（2015）；人大复印资料《妇女研究》2015年第4期全文转载。
  14. Liu, Z. Stories and storytelling: How is narrative sociology possible?—With reflections on telling China’s stories well. Sociological Studies, 2 (2018).
  15. Liu, Z. Two dimensions of legal consciousness: Homeowners’ rights-defence litigation. Open Times, 4 (2014).
  16. Liu, Z. Incentives and expansion: Law and social relations in homeowners’ rights-defence movements in City B. Sociological Studies, 5 (2010).