The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia
Author | : Alfred W. McCoy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 522 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Asia, Southeastern |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Alfred W. McCoy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 522 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Asia, Southeastern |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ko-lin Chin |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2011-02-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 080145719X |
The Golden Triangle region that joins Burma, Thailand, and Laos is one of the global centers of opiate and methamphetamine production. Opportunistic Chinese businessmen and leaders of various armed groups are largely responsible for the manufacture of these drugs. The region is defined by the apparently conflicting parallel strands of criminality and efforts at state building, a tension embodied by a group of individuals who are simultaneously local political leaders, drug entrepreneurs, and members of heavily armed militias.Ko-lin Chin, a Chinese American criminologist who was born and raised in Burma, conducted five hundred face-to-face interviews with poppy growers, drug dealers, drug users, armed group leaders, law-enforcement authorities, and other key informants in Burma, Thailand, and China. The Golden Triangle provides a lively portrait of a region in constant transition, a place where political development is intimately linked to the vagaries of the global market in illicit drugs.Chin explains the nature of opium growing, heroin and methamphetamine production, drug sales, and drug use. He also shows how government officials who live in these areas view themselves not as drug kingpins, but as people who are carrying the responsibility for local economic development on their shoulders.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Drug control |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ko-lin Chin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Drug control |
ISBN | : 9781479832514 |
In a country long associated with the trade in opiates, the Chinese government has for decades applied extreme measures to curtail the spread of illicit drugs, only to find that the problem has worsened. Burma is blamed as the major producer of illicit drugs and conduit for the entry of drugs into China. Which organizations are behind the heroin trade? What problems and prospects of drug control in the so-called 'Golden Triangle' drug-trafficking region are faced by Chinese and Southeast Asian authorities? In 'The Chinese Heroin Trade', noted criminologists Ko-Lin Chin and Sheldon Zhang examine the social organization of the trafficking of heroin from the Golden Triangle to China and the wholesale and retail distribution of the drug in China.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Drug control |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Tim Lindsey |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2016-07-28 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1782258337 |
Drugs Law and Legal Practice in Southeast Asia investigates criminal law and practice relevant to drugs regulation in three Southeast Asian jurisdictions: Indonesia, Singapore and Vietnam. These jurisdictions represent a spectrum of approaches to drug regulation in Southeast Asia, highlighting differences in practice between civil and common law countries, and between liberal and authoritarian states. This book offers the first major English language empirical investigation and comparative analysis of regulation, jurisprudence, court procedure, and practices relating to drugs law enforcement in these three states.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Special Study Mission to Southeast Asia |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Drug control |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Wolfgang Sachsenroder |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2022-03-21 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9811247250 |
Southeast Asia is one of the biggest marketplaces for illicit drugs. The international syndicates with their billion-dollar profits are similar to the Hydra of the old Greek mythology which grew two new heads if one was cut off. Hercules eventually killed the monster with the help of his nephew who cauterised the fresh wounds before new heads could emerge. This story describes quite well the challenging task for the political and police efforts to fight the narcotics industry which has a long history in Asia. From the early 1800s, the East India Company dumped Indian opium on China and ruined the economy of both countries. During the colonial heydays, Britain in Malaya and Burma, France in Indochina, and the Netherlands in today's Indonesia, financed big parts of their colonial budgets with opium. In the 20th century, heroin ruined countless lives in Southeast Asia and in the West.Today, synthetic drugs, especially methamphetamines, are produced in hidden laboratories in remote areas of the region and smuggled across the porous borders. Drug prevention programs and the harsh penalties in all ASEAN states have not reduced the drug trade and the consumption. On the contrary, both are growing.This book analyses the detrimental impact of the drug industry on the political economy and the social developments in Southeast Asia. Shortcomings and lasting damages can be traced in the political structures, in the rampant corruption, and the secretive links between customs, armies, police organisations, and organised crime.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Drug control |
ISBN | : |