Chinese Criminal Entrepreneurs in Canada, Volume II

• Main Author: Chung, Alex (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Transnational Crime, Crime Control and Security
• Subjects: Organized crime.; Transnational crime.; Public safety.; Critical criminology.; Criminology.; Law-Asia.; Violence.; Crime.; Organized Crime.; Trafficking.; Crime Control and Security.; Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime.; Asian Criminology.; Violence and Crime.

This book explores how the 'new' Asian criminal entrepreneurs in Canada, known as The Big Circle Boys (BCB), competitively dominated the Canadian heroin market in the 1990s without a formal organisation or explicit hierarchical structure. Drawing on the market resilience framework, it exam...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Theoretical Frameworks and Concepts
• 3. Heroin 1: Market Resilience and BCB Network Evolution
• 4. Heroin 2: BCB Competitive Cooperation
• 5. Heroin 3: Ho and Sa's Importation Scheme
• 6. Heroin 4: Counteraction against Police Attacks
• 7. From Heroin to Ecstasy
• 8. Entering the Ecstasy Market
• 9. Internal Management Methods
• 10. The Wong Ecstasy Group
• 11. Conclusion. .