Asian Transnational Organized Crime

Examines the impact of Asian transnational organised crime on the United States. This book looks into the structure, activity, and harms of Asian transnational organised crime - including the multiple criminal groups and organisations involved, and the multiple goods and services that constitute criminal markets.

This book examines the impact of Asian transnational organised crime on the United States. It looks into the structure, activity, and harms of Asian transnational organised crime - including the multiple criminal groups and organisations involved (secret societies, tongs, triads, gangs, drug cartels, criminal networks, etc.), the multiple goods and services that constitute criminal markets (drug production and trafficking, human smuggling and trafficking, money laundering, and the violence attendant to these crimes), and the multiple nations and national components (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, and Cambodia in addition to the United States) that might be involved.

Preface
Introduction
Leading Organised Crime Problems
Scope and Patterns of Organised Crime
Threat, Impact and Harm to the United States
Appendix C-1: The Illicit Drug Market In Taiwan
Appendix C-2: The Trafficking of Mainland Chinese Women to Taiwan for the Purpose of Prostitution
Appendix C-3: Taiwan Gangs
Appendix D-1: Hong Kong Trafficking Situation-2003 (with 2004 Update)
Appendix D-2: Hong Kong: Chinese Human Smuggling
Appendix D-3: Hong Kong Gangs
Index.