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Chinese Subculture and Criminality - Non-traditional Crime Groups in America (Hardcover, New)
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Chinese Subculture and Criminality - Non-traditional Crime Groups in America (Hardcover, New)
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The President's Commission on Organized Crime predicted that Asian
crime groups would be the United States' foremost organized crime
problem by the 1990s. There are few comprehensive studies on the
nature and scope of these groups. Ko-lin Chin warns that our
limited law enforcement resources will be ineffective without a
precise understanding of the norms, values, structure, criminal
patterns, and interrelationships of these groups. His study takes a
major step toward this effort. A sociological investigation of
Triads, tongs, and street gangs, Chin's volume explores the where,
how, and why of these groups as well as the connection between
Triad subculture and criminality. Chinese Subculture and
Criminality is a thoroughly researched study of Asian criminality
and its manifestations in America's ethnic communities. Ko-lin Chin
describes both the history and activities of Chinese secret
societies, and how these societies degenerated into crime groups.
He analyzes the symbiotic relationship of Chinese communities and
tongs; and details the history of the gangs' development in San
Franscisco, Los Angeles, Monterey Park, and New York City. The
causative and intervening factors leading to the rise of these
gangs is explored as well as their nature and activities. Personal
and group characteristics help explain why these gangs persist.
Comparisons are made with other ethnic gangs. The volume predicts
the future direction of Chinese organized crime. It concludes with
a discussion of ethnic succession and the role of Chinese gangs in
the heroin trade.
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