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Introduction

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

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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.

Type: Book chapter
Title: Introduction
ISBN-13: 978-3-030-05135-8
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-05135-8
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05135-8
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10062741
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