‘Why Should I Trust You With My Money?’: Credible Commitments in the Informal Economy in China

Varese, Federico; Wang, Peng; Wong, Rebecca

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“…The finding enriches our understanding of trust in Chinese triad society and the skills criminals use to establish trust or reduce risk in Chinese organised crime (e.g., Lo and Kan 2022;Varese, Wang and Wong 2019;Wang 2020;Wang, Su and Wang 2021). A comparison of the above studies is summarized in Table 3.…”

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Restrictive deterrence in Hong Kong drug dealing: exploring a framework of certainty reduction – severity mitigation

Xin

2023

Trends Organ Crim

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Using a framework of certainty reduction – severity mitigation, the paper examines how drug dealers in Hong Kong adopted restrictive deterrence strategies to reduce the certainty, and mitigate the severity, of punishment. It examines seven concrete techniques, including camouflage in public places, picking a safe time and position, counter-reconnaissance, choosing a less severe activity, stashing the product, passing risk, and cooperating with the police. We found that the techniques used by drug dealers correspond well to this framework, but that high-level dealers make more use of severity mitigation strategies while low-level dealers use certainty reduction strategies more. Moreover, the restrictive deterrence strategy is transferred through dual paths in which trust plays a role among dealers with a triad background.

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Restrictive deterrence in Hong Kong drug dealing: exploring a framework of certainty reduction – severity mitigation

Xin

2023

Trends Organ Crim

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“…3. IFT systems overtly operate in some countries, such as China, Somalia, and the U.A.E (Passas & Maimbo, 2008;Varese et al, 2019). 4.…”

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Mapping hawala risks around the world: the use of a composite indicator

Han

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Nelen

2022

Global Crime

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“…Underground bankers who accept prostitution services are in effect sharing compromising information with the VIP customers with whom they are trying to build trust. Individuals involved in informal exchanges are keenly aware they have to signal their trustworthiness to customers and adopt several strategies to do so (it should be noted that formal bankers were also discussed in the paper, see Varese et al 2019). 6 RE can exploit natural experiments to exclude possible causal factors and focus on a narrower set of candidate explanations (Diamond & Robinson 2010).…”

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Handbook of Sociological Science

2022

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Contents List of contributors viiiThe Handbook of Sociological Science: Contributions to Rigorous Sociology would have been impossible without the active involvement of numerous people and institutions.First of all, we would like to thank the contributors. They were willing to share their expertise and write informative chapters. They were likewise patient and thoughtful throughout an, at times, meticulous process that we as editors asked them to go through.As part of the process, we held a series of online meetings in December 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic, at which all contributors participated actively as reviewers and discussants of each other's chapters, with written contributions on each chapter that had been circulated ahead of the meetings. In this way, the individual chapters and the Handbook as a whole benefited from detailed and constructive comments and suggestions as well as from lively discussions. Contributors and we editors found these meetings a great success. Claudia Fanti (European University Institute) provided administrative support for these meetings and saw to it that everything worked smoothly. Subsequently, contributors revised their chapters. As editors, we then provided another round of comments for each chapter and contributors afterwards prepared the final versions.This Handbook would not have been possible without the support of Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Editor of the Edward Elgar Research Handbooks in Sociology Series. Peter was enthusiastic about the idea for our Handbook from the very beginning and supported the project in various ways. We likewise acknowledge the collaboration with various people at Edward Elgar, our publisher. Preparing the complete manuscript for submission, Esmee Bosma (Utrecht University) worked carefully and efficiently on unifying formatting and layout of the chapters. Jesper Sørensen, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Sociological Science and his editorial team gently agreed with sharing the title of their journal with parts of the Handbook's title, even though the Handbook is not affiliated with the journal.We are grateful to authors of the 'showcase chapters' in Part IV for their willingness to include reprints of their work and for active participation in the meetings on reviewing and improving draft-versions of chapters. We likewise acknowledge the respective journals and publishers of these journals for their permission to reprint. More specifically, our Handbook comprises the following reprints:Richard Breen and John H. Goldthorpe (1997), 'Explaining educational differentials: towards a formal rational action theory', Rationality and Society, 9, 275-305 (reprinted as Chapter 18). Reprinted with permission from Sage Publications. Ronald S. Burt (2004), 'Structural holes and good ideas',

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‘Why Should I Trust You With My Money?’: Credible Commitments in the Informal Economy in China

Cited by 15 publications

References 29 publications

Restrictive deterrence in Hong Kong drug dealing: exploring a framework of certainty reduction – severity mitigation

Restrictive deterrence in Hong Kong drug dealing: exploring a framework of certainty reduction – severity mitigation

Mapping hawala risks around the world: the use of a composite indicator

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