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The Chinese Mafia - Organized Crime, Corruption, and Extra-Legal Protection (Hardcover)
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The Chinese Mafia - Organized Crime, Corruption, and Extra-Legal Protection (Hardcover)
Series: Clarendon Studies in Criminology
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Utilising individual interviews and focus group discussions,
primarily from two Chinese cities, The Chinese Mafia: Organized
Crime, Corruption, and Extra-Legal Protection contributes to the
understanding of organized crime and corruption in the Chinese
context, filling a significant gap in criminological literature, by
investigating how extra-legal protectors-corrupt public officials
and street gangsters-emerge, evolve and operate in a rapidly
changing society. China's economic reforms have been accompanied by
a surge of social problems, such as ineffective legal institutions,
booming black markets and rampant corruption. This has resulted in
the rise of extra-legal means of protection and enforcement: such
is the demand for protection that cannot be fulfilled by
state-sponsored institutions. This book develops a new
socio-economic theory of mafia emergence, incorporating
Granovetter's argument on social embeddedness into Gambetta's
economic theory of the mafia, to suggest that the rise of the
Chinese mafia is primarily due to the negative influence of guanxi
(a Chinese version of personal connections) on the effectiveness of
the formal legal system. This interplay has two major consequences.
First, the weakened ability of the formal legal system sees street
gangsters (the 'Black Mafia') providing protection and quasi law
enforcement. Second, it allows for escalating abuse of power by
public officials; as a result, corrupt officials (the 'Red Mafia')
sell public appointments, exchange illegal benefits with businesses
and protect local gangs. Together, these outcomes have seen street
gangs shift their operations away from traditional areas (e.g.
gambling, prostitution and drug distribution), whilst corrupt
public officials have moved to offer illegal services to the
criminal underworld, including the safeguarding organized crime
groups and protection of illegal entrepreneurs. A study of crime
and deviance located within a fast growing economy, The Chinese
Mafia offers a unique understanding of these activities within
contemporary Chinese society and a new perspective for
understanding the interaction between corruption and organized
crime. It will be of interest to academics and students engaged in
the fields of criminology and criminal justice, sociology, and
political science, with particular interest for those researching
China and Chinese politics and governance.
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