TY  - CHAP
TI  - Introduction
EP  - 19
AV  - public
ED  - Sheptycki, J
ED  - Tsoukala, A
Y1  - 2019///
CY  - London, UK
T3  - Transnational Crime, Crime Control and Security
ID  - discovery10062741
N2  - 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.
T2  - Chinese Criminal Entrepreneurs in Canada, Volume II
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
N1  - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
SP  - 1
A1  - Chung, AS
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05135-8
ER  -