Chinatown gangs : extortion, enterprise, and ethnicity

Author(s)

• Chin, Ko-lin

Bibliographic Information

Chinatown gangs : extortion, enterprise, and ethnicity

Ko-lin Chin

（Studies in crime and public policy）

Oxford University Press, 1996

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-225) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Ko-lin Chin provides a systematic study of New York City's Chinatown gangs. First-hand data was collected from a substantial number of gang victims, gang members, community leaders, and law enforcement authorities. Also examined are the details and severity of gang extortion, gang characteristics, gang violence, gang enterprise, and gang control stategies.

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Details

• NCID: BA28122697
• ISBN:
  • 019510238X
• LCCN: 95037331
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 233 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HV6439.U7
  • DC20 : 364.1/06/608995107471
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Gangs -- New York (N.Y.)
  • LCSH : Chinese American teenagers -- New York (State) -- New York
  • LCSH : Chinese American criminals -- New York (State) -- New York
  • LCSH : Extortion -- New York (State) -- New York
  • LCSH : Chinatown (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA24177154