Triad-related homicides in Hong Kong

Abstract

This study provides an overview of the first systematic research on triad-related homicide in a Chinese society. In the 10-year period from 1989 to 1998, 11.9% of all homicides or a total of 95 triad-related homicides were extracted from the Hong Kong Homicide Monitoring Database. These events resulted in 124 victims (13.2 percent of all victims) and involved 526 known offenders. Triad homicides were classified into various types based on different combinations of circumstances, motivation, and outcomes including unintended outcomes.

Uncertainty and the case of police constable ‘Tiger’ Tsui Po-ko

“…No cases of a similar or related nature are held in the Hong Kong Homicide Monitoring Database (e.g. see Chan et al 2003, Lee et al 2006. Although the database includes the case of a police officer who shot his supervisor at his workplace and then committed suicide and a number of open fire cases involving suspects of robbery, these events are very different from the PC Tsui case.…”

Resurgent Triads? Democratic mobilization and organized crime in Hong Kong

“…2 and 15). As noted by Lee, Broadhurst, and Beh (2006, p. 183), contemporary Triads in Hong Kong are ‘less and less distinguishable from other youth and street gangs.’ At the same time, such groups still maintain the ability to use violence against dissenters. In February 2014, a critic of the Communist Party and former editor of the outspoken Hong Kong newspaper, Ming Pao , Kevin Lau, was brutally attacked with a cleaver.…”

“…Hence the decline in the Triads noted by several scholars (e.g. Broadhurst & Lee, 2009;Lee, Broadhurst, & Beh 2006;Zhang & Chin, 2003), maybe be reversed. We draw upon a set of interviews with key witnesses, official documents and press reports.…”

“…In 2013, 2035 Triad-related crimes were reported, with 2844 people arrested (HKG Yearbook, 2013, p. 260;Tweed, 2014). In a ten-year period (1989)(1990)(1991)(1992)(1993)(1994)(1995)(1996)(1997)(1998), 95 out of 804 homicide events have been identified as Triad related homicide cases (Lee, Broadhurst, & Beh, 2006).…”

Applying Time-series Cross Correlation Analysis to Examine the Nexus between Firearms and Homicide in Hong Kong

“…Vagg (1992) further argued that the increased availability and the decreased price of handguns 10 in HK during the second crime wave were due to poor weaponry stock controls, corruption (which enhanced the illegal purchase of guns), and excessive weapons acquired by various work units in China. Vagg (1992) claimed to find no evidence to support the view that guns were becoming widely used in other kinds of offences such as street robberies or minor crimes, but Lee (2005) and associates (Lee et al 2006) found that Triad Society members were frequently involved in firearm-related homicides in HK during the second crime wave. Thus, the low prevalence of firearm robbery and homicide in recent years might be a result of the declining influence of the Triads (Chin and Zhang 2003;Zhang and Chin 2002).…”