@incollection{discovery10062741, publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan}, year = {2019}, title = {Introduction}, series = {Transnational Crime, Crime Control and Security}, pages = {1--19}, booktitle = {Chinese Criminal Entrepreneurs in Canada, Volume II}, editor = {J Sheptycki and A Tsoukala}, address = {London, UK}, note = {This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05135-8}, abstract = {Volume I showed that the Big Circle Boys (BCB) dominated the Canadian heroin market in the 1990s as a mono-ethnic criminal network. However, there was evidence that a heroin drought occurred in the early 2000s in Canada and Australia. Volume II sets out to explore how the BCB succeeded and failed on a granular level based on their operations; the connection between the two droughts and the BCB; and the strategic and theoretical implications on their survival as a collective. Martin Bouchard's drug market resilience framework is the main theory used and related network structure and properties are examined. A research gap in the paucity of studies on ethnic-Chinese drug traffickers in Western countries is identified. Social network analysis is explained as one of the analytical tools used.}, author = {Chung, AS} }