The role of Vietnamese criminal networks in drug crime: The Czech Republic case

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The role of Vietnamese criminal networks in drug crime: The Czech Republic case

Original language description

Especially since 1990, the numbers of Vietnamese living in Central Europe have steadily increased. Most of these Vietnamese emigrants have been looking for an opportunity to improve their lives and to ensure a better future for their children. However, the waves of Vietnamese emigration brought a new kind of crime to the host countries as well. Vietnamese criminals are engaged in a broad spectrum of criminal activities, including smuggling of people, economic crime, violent crime, racketeering, stealing of goods, trade in people, prostitution, counterfeiting activities, wildlife crime, etc., In the first decades of the 21st century, Vietnamese drug-related crime grew tremendously in Central Europe as well. Especially from 2007, the Czech security forces have been registering a strong engagement of the Vietnamese in the illegal production and trade in cannabis, namely the outdoor, hydroponic cultivation of cannabis and its trafficking. Furthermore, from 2010, it has been mainly Vietnamese organized crime that dominated the production of methamphetamine in the Czech Republic and its exports from the Czech Republic to other countries in Europe, and in Asia as well. This trend reflects the growing demand for stimulant drugs on the world drug scene. The Vietnamese drug networks use specific modi operandi to carry out their activities. They live in a specific symbiosis with local criminal undergrounds and also with the local Asian emigrant communities, where legal and illegal activities are frequently mixed together. According to the Czech Police Anti-Drug Headquarters, Vietnamese drug crime represents the most dynamically developing phenomenon on the Czech drug scene and in the border areas of the neighbouring countries, which should not be overlooked.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA13-26485S" target="_blank" >GA13-26485S: Global Prohibition Regimes: Theoretical Refinement and Empirical Analysis</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

The Janus-faces of cross-border crime in Europe

ISBN

978-94-6236-871-2

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Number of pages

23

Pages from-to

125-147

Publisher name

Eleven International Publishing

Place of publication

Hague

Event location

Comenius University in Bratislava

Event date

Jun 18, 2017

Type of event by nationality

EUR - Evropská akce

UT code for WoS article

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