Assessing and Explaining the Resurgence of China's Criminal Underworld

Ming Xia

Global Crime, 2006, vol. 7, issue 2, 151-175

Abstract: Based upon collected crime statistics, this paper provides a sketch of China's criminal underworld during the past two decades and a quantitative assessment of its current state. Through examining the organised criminal groups, it also assesses the hardcore of China's criminal underworld — the mafia-style criminal syndicates and their greater base — the underworld society. It argues that a challenge from the criminal underworld has increasingly posed a serious threat to Chinese society. It also provides explanations for the recent resurgence of the criminal underworld in China through a perspective of political science — placing emphasis on the state-failure factors.

Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1080/17440570601014420

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