Transnational Drug Trafficking Across the Vietnam-Laos Border. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Hai Thanh Luong.
• Authors: Luong, Hai Thanh
• Contents: Acknowledgement List of Abbreviations List of Figures and Tables Preface Introduction Theoretical Application Research Methods Qualitative Research Sites Quantitative Research Sites Some Constraints and Solutions Drug Trafficking across Vietnam's Borderland Areas Vietnam Background Geography and its Impacts Climate and its Impacts Structured Population and its Impacts Drug Trafficking in Mainland Southeast Asian Region Drug Production, Consumption and Trafficking: An Overview Laos Illicit Drug Markets Drug Concerns in Vietnam Transnational Narcotics Trafficking Family-based Structure and Fellow-Countrymen Association Group Size The Central Actors Adaptation and Flexibility Age and Responsibility Family-Based Structures Fellow-Countrymen Associations Ensuring Trust for Co-offending Establishing Close-Knit Community Modus Operandi of Cross-Border Drug Trafficking in Vietnam Preparation Exploit Drug Sources Sale-and-Buy Agreement Protecting Drug Operations against Interdiction Pre-activity Pack-and-Conceal Process Transporting Activity Exchange Processes Cutting Post-activity Distribution Illegal Profits Barriers and Challenges to Combat Transnational Narcotics Trafficking Porous Borders and its Blurred Points Data Sharing and its Related Information Incapacity of Building Cooperative Instruments Uneven Distributions of Law Enforcement 1 Increased Transportation and Trade at Shared Borderlands Initiative Issues to Combat Cross-Border Drug Trafficking Initiative 1: Developing Human Resources at BLOs Initiative 3: Encouraging Use of E-passport at Cross-border Checking Points Conclusions Organisational structure and modus operandi of CBDT in Vietnam Challenges and its Initiative Priorities to Combat CBDT Next Further Steps References Index.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (221 pages)
• Subjects: Criminology; Transnational crime; Police; Criminal behavior; Crime prevention; Social Science -- Criminology; Crime & criminology; Causes & prevention of crime; Law--Asia
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030157739
• Related ISBNs: 9783030157722
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