RT Article
T1 Chinese organized crime and the illegal wildlife trade: diversification and outsourcing in the Golden Triangle
JF Trends in organized crime
VO 24
IS 4
SP 486
OP 505
A1 Uhm, Daan P. van
A2 Wong, Rebecca W. Y. 1986-
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1784398128
AB The illegal wildlife trade has increasingly been linked to organized crime in recent years. In particular, Chinese crime groups seem to be major players in more organized forms of this trade. This article examines the involvement of Chinese organized crime groups in the trade of wildlife in the borderlands of the Golden Triangle. We will discuss the representation of Chinese crime groups in the illegal wildlife trade by looking at: a) the diversification of these crime groups into wildlife crimes and b) the outsourcing of activities to local opportunistic crime groups in neighboring Laos and Myanmar. We conclude that the different representations of Chinese crime groups overseas involved in the illegal wildlife trade are important in order to understand the roles of diversification and outsourcing.
K1 Tierhandel
K1 Wildtiere
K1 Organisiertes Verbrechen
K1 Criminal networks
K1 Outsourcing
K1 Diversification
K1 Chinese organized crime
K1 Illegal wildlife trade
K1 China
DO 10.1007/s12117-021-09408-z