Transnational Drug Trafficking Across the Vietnam-Laos Border

This book presents the first detailed inquiry into the nature of cross-border drug trafficking between Laos People's Democratic Republic and Vietnam, using an exploratory approach. It draws upon qualitative and quantitative methods, case studies, interviews and survey data from criminal investigation police and drug-related crimes officers (CIPDRC) from six border provinces which are directly and indirectly involved in investigating these cross-border cases. The author demonstrates that drug markets in Vietnam are not controlled by monopolistic, hierarchical organizations or 'cartels' but small structures, based on family ties and fellow-countrymen relations, which are fluid and loosely organized. They are very adaptable and sophisticated with diverse modus operandi and multiple divisions of labour which present particular challenges to law enforcement agencies, which the author discusses. 

List of contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Drug Trafficking across Vietnam's Borderland Areas.- 3. Family-based Structure and Fellow-Countrymen Association.- 4. Modus Operandi of Cross-Border Drug Trafficking in Vietnam.- 5. Barriers and Challenges to Combat Transnational Narcotics Trafficking.- 6. Initiative Issues to Combat Cross-Border Drug Trafficking.- 7. Conclusions.

About the author

Hai Thanh Luong is Honorary Principal Research Fellow at Royal Melbourne Institute for Technology University, Australia. 

Product details

• Authors: Hai Thanh Luong
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.05.2019
• EAN: 9783030157722
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3015772-2
• No. of pages: 221
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 217 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 440 g
• Illustrations: XXI, 221 p. 3 illus., 2 illus. in color.
• Series: Palgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Asia
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Asien, B, police, Criminology, Law and Criminology, Crime & criminology, Policing, Criminal Behavior, Crime Control and Security, Transnational Crime, Law—Asia, Asian Criminology, Causes & Prevention Of Crime, Crime Prevention