Transnational Drug Trafficking Across the Vietnam-Laos Border

• Main Author: Luong, Hai Thanh (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: Palgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Asia
• Subjects: Criminology.; Law-Asia.; Transnational crime.; Police.; Criminal behavior.; Crime prevention.; Asian Criminology.; Transnational Crime.; Policing.; Criminal Behavior.; Crime Prevention.

This book presents the first detailed inquiry into the nature of cross-border drug trafficking between Laos People's Democratic Republic and Vietnam using an exploratory approach, which draws upon qualitative and quantitative methods. It draws from case studies, interviews and survey data from...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Drug Trafficking across Vietnam's Borderland Areas
• 3. Family-based Structure and Fellow-Countrymen Association
• 4. Modus Operandi of Cross-Border Drug Trafficking in Vietnam
• 5. Barriers and Challenges to Combat Transnational Narcotics Trafficking
• 6. Initiative Issues to Combat Cross-Border Drug Trafficking
• 7. Conclusions.