2017 Ph.D. City University of Hong Kong 

2011 LL.M. Southwest University of Political Science and Law 

2005 B.A. Southwest Jiaotong University

Chinese policing, Strike-Hard, Wrongful Convictions, Sociology of Law, Sociology of Crime, Moral Panic

Chinese policing, Strike-Hard, Wrongful Convictions, Sociology of Law, Sociology of Crime, Moral Panic

2018 - Present Macau University of Science and Technology 

2011 - 2013 Gansu University of Political Science and Law 

2006 - 2008 Chongqing Three Gorges Vocational College

1. Han Wang and Mengliang Dai. (2024). Who questions the legitimacy of law? A latent profile analysis using national data in China. Law and Human Behavior. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000583 (SSCI)

2. Han Wang and Mengliang Dai. (2024). Moralization of law, heavy-penaltyism, and retributive justice: A corpus-assisted study of legal consciousness on Chinese social media. International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 79, 100700. (SSCI)

3. Mengliang Dai, Xiaoyu Zhuang and Ting Kin Ng. (2023). Institutional anomie theory and gambling-related crime: An empirical test in Macau. Journal of Criminology, 56(2-3), 335-358. (SSCI)

4. Mengliang Dai, Yiwei Xia and Rongxu Han. (2022). Temporal variations in calls for police service during COVID-19: Evidence from China. Crime & Delinquency, 68(8), 1183-1206. (SSCI) 

5. Kangqing Wang, Mengliang Dai and Yiwei Xia. (2022). Rank, strain, and corruption among Chinese public officials: A general strain theory perspective. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13: 1077544. (SSCI) 

6. Mengliang Dai, Yiwei Xia and Rongxu Han. (2021). The impact of lockdown on police service calls during the COVID-19 pandemic in China. Policing: A Journal of Police and Practice, 15(3), 1867-1881. (SSCI) 

7. Mengliang Dai and Yunjiao Gao. (2021). Reporting behavior of bicycle theft victims: A test of Black’s theory of law. Security Journal, 34(1), 148-164. (SSCI) 

8. Mengliang Dai. (2020). The 1983 strike-hard campaign in China: A moral panic? British Journal of Criminology, 60(5), 1220-1241. (SSCI) 

9. Yingnan Li and Mengliang Dai. (2020). Review and suggestions of environmental criminology in China: A bibliometric analysis. Chinese Criminology Review, 6, 76-94. 

10. Lena Y. Zhong and Mengliang Dai. (2019). The politics of wrongful convictions in China. Journal of Contemporary China, 28(116), 260-276. (SSCI) 

11. Mengliang Dai. (2017). Research on wrongful convictions in the US and its implications for China. Theory Monthly, 5, 174-181. 

12. Mengliang Dai, Yunyun Yang and Lena Y. Zhong. (2016). The influences of police-initiated specialized campaigns on police discretion. Police Law Study (vol. 2), 175-184.

Conference Presentation 

1. Pan-moralism, Retributionalism, and Heavy-Penaltyism: A Corpus-Assisted Study of Chinese Youth’s Legal Consciousness. Empirical turn in Chinese Legal Research Challenges, Strategies, and Solutions, January 9-10, 2023, Hong Kong SAR, China. 

2. The Impact of COVID-19 on the 110 Calls for Police Service in China. The 1st ACCCJ Online Conference, January 14-16, 2021. 

3. The Dilemma of the System of Sex Offender Residence Restrictions in the United States. The Cross-Strait Conference on the Risk Management of Recidivism and its Intelligentialization. Nanjing University, November 28-29, 2019, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China. 

4. Legislative Practices, Controversies and Implications of Sex Offender Residence Restrictions in the United States. Risk Assessment of Offenders and Reform of Prison System. Central College of Correctional Police Officer, October 20, 2019, Baoding, Hebei Province, China. 

5. The development review of smart policing in the United States and its enlightenment. Legal Differences and Policing Cooperation between Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area. Macau Security Forces College, July 4-5, 2019, Macau SAR, China. 

6. Wrongful Convictions in China. International Workshop on Law Enforcement in China. City University of Hong Kong, September 21, 2017, Hong Kong SAR, China. 

7. Moral Panic and Strike-hard Campaigns in Mainland China. The 8th Annual Conference of the Asian Criminological Society on Crime Prevention and Control under the Perspective of Globalization. June 17-19, 2016, Beijing, China. 

8. Controlling crime through Specialized Campaigns in Mainland China: Myth and Reality. The 7th Annual Conference of the Asian Criminological Society on Criminology and Criminal Justice in a Changing World: Contributions from Asia. June 24-26, 2015, Hong Kong SAR, China. 

9. Wrongful Convictions in China from the Perspective of Public Security Organs. Symposium on Current Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice: A Dialogue between the Pacific and the Greater China Region. Victoria University of Wellington, October 22-23, 2014, New Zealand.

Book Chapter 

1. Yunyun Yang, Han Wang, Pingping Huang and Mengliang Dai. (2023). The criminal justice system in China: Organization and function. In In J. M. Mbuba (Ed.), Comparative Criminal Justice: International Trends and Practices (pp. 79-105). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 

2. Mengliang Dai and Yunyun Yang. (2021). The Chinese police: Structure, police-public relations and deviance. In J. M. Mbuba (Ed.), Global Perspectives in Policing and Law Enforcement (pp. 153-169). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 

Book Review 

1. Mengliang Dai. (2023). Review of Adam K. Ghazi-Tehrani and Henry N. Pontell, Wayward Dragon: White-Collar and Corporate Crime in China. Asian Journal of Criminology, 18(1), 79-81.