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Chinatown gangs : extortion, enterprise, and ethnicity / Ko-lin Chin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chin, Ko-lin, author.
- Series:
- Studies in crime and public policy.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Studies in crime and public policy
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gangs--New York (State)--New York.
- Gangs.
- Chinese American criminals--New York (State)--New York.
- Chinese American criminals.
- Chinatown (New York, N.Y.)--Social conditions.
- Chinatown (New York, N.Y.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This systematic study of New York City's Chinatown gangs uses first-hand data collected from a substantial number of gang victims, gang members, community leaders and law enforcement authorities.
- Contents:
- Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Research Strategies and Methods; 3 Severity of Gang Victimization; 4 Patterns of Gang Extortion; 5 Victim Reactions to Gang Extortion; 6 Gang Characteristics; 7 Gang Violence; 8 The Gang as an Enterprise; 9 Controlling Chinese Gangs; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Originally published: 1996.
- Previously issued in print: 2000.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-225) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-771861-2
- 1-280-53525-3
- 9786610535255
- 0-19-802627-7
- 0-19-535046-4
- OCLC:
- 435942085
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