eprintid: 10062741 rev_number: 37 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/06/27/41 datestamp: 2019-05-23 16:20:40 lastmod: 2021-10-04 01:49:16 status_changed: 2019-05-28 14:16:47 type: book_section metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Chung, AS title: Introduction ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C05 divisions: J39 note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. 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. date: 2019 date_type: published publisher: Palgrave Macmillan official_url: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05135-8 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1605501 doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-05135-8 isbn_13: 978-3-030-05135-8 lyricists_name: Chung, Alex lyricists_id: ACHUN15 actors_name: Chung, Alex actors_id: ACHUN15 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public series: Transnational Crime, Crime Control and Security place_of_pub: London, UK pagerange: 1-19 book_title: Chinese Criminal Entrepreneurs in Canada, Volume II editors_name: Sheptycki, J editors_name: Tsoukala, A citation: Chung, AS; (2019) Introduction. In: Sheptycki, J and Tsoukala, A, (eds.) Chinese Criminal Entrepreneurs in Canada, Volume II. (pp. 1-19). Palgrave Macmillan: London, UK. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10062741/14/chap%201%20Chung%20Chinese%20Criminal%20Entrepreneurs%20in%20Canada%20V2_25Nov2018.pdf