The Triads as Business

By Yiu-kong Chu

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About the Book

The triads are an important, sophisticated and international criminal force, involved in protection, drugs, gambling, prostitution, human smuggling and other forms of organized crime. This new and revised edition of The Triads as Business presents a systematic overview of the triads and their activities. Following on from the first edition of this fascinating book, this updated text brings the information to the present and covers a number of additional areas of triad activity. It shows how, since the handover of Hong Kong to China, there have been increasing fears that the influence of the triads will spread to the West through emigration.

Table of Contents

Forward. Preface. 1. Triads, Business and Market Part 1: The Triads 2. The Origins 3. The Organisation Part 2: Legal Markets 4. Protection Against Extortionists 5. Protection Against Competitors: Traditional Operations 6. Protection Against Competitors: Recent Operations 7. Dispute Settlement Part 3: Illegal Markets 8. Drug Dealing 9. Gambling 10. Prostitution Part 4: International Markets 11. Drug Trafficking 12. Human Smuggling Part 5: Implications and Reflections 13. Are Triads Extortionists, Entrepreneurs, or Protectors? 14. International Triad Movement: Emigration or Reversion? 15. New Directions in the Study of Triads