Format:
1 online resource (265 pages)
ISBN:
9780765623041
Series Statement:
Hong Kong Becoming China
Content:
Organized crime has been on the rise in the Greater Chine region since the People's Republic opened up its economy and society in the mid-1980s. This book provides a detailed and comprehensive study of how the state at the central and local levels has responded to the changing patterns and activities of cross-border crime in Greater China.
Content:
cover -- Half-title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Series Editors' Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Concept of Transborder Crime -- Organized Crime and the State -- Transborder Crime and the Changing Role of the State -- Transborder Crime and Interstate/Intergovernmental Cooperation -- The Case of Greater China -- 1. Types and Patterns of Transborder Crime in Greater China -- Socioeconomic Interactions and Transborder Crime -- Art Crime -- Car-Crashing Syndicates, Highway Robberies, Murders, and Assassinations -- Cross-Border Begging -- Computer and Internet Crime -- Counterfeiting -- Triad Activities -- Drug Trafficking and Loan Sharking -- Fraud -- Hijacking -- Illegal Gambling -- Illegal Workers -- Kidnapping -- Money Laundering -- Human Smuggling -- Smuggling of Goods and Products -- Weapons Smuggling -- Media Piracy -- Prostitution -- Cross-Border Theft and Robbery -- The Changing Patterns of Transborder Crime -- 2. The PRC State Response at National, Provincial, and Local Levels -- Response at Provincial and Local Levels: Guangdong, Shenzhen, and the Pearl River Delta -- Persistence of Art Crime -- Internet Crime -- Antidrug Trafficking Campaigns -- Combating Highway Robberies -- Tackling Counterfeiting and Fraud -- Antigambling Efforts -- Cross-Border Kidnapping -- Mainlanders' Visits to Hong Kong -- Triads, the Mainland Democracy Movement, and PRC Reactions -- Antiprostitution -- Antismuggling Efforts -- Anticrime Campaigns -- Police Performance and the "Protective Umbrella" -- Anticorruption -- Judicial Reforms -- Media Scrutiny in Mainland China and Hong Kong -- South China: The Weak Central State Versus the Strong Mafia States -- 3. Cross-Border Crime and the Postcolonial State in Hong Kong -- Art Crime -- Assassinations -- Antipiracy and Internet Crime.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780765612762
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780765612762
Language:
English
Subjects:
Law
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=501523
