A Law Enforcement Sourcebook of Asian Crime and CulturesTactics and Mindsets

by Douglas D. Daye

Overview

Even in multicultural North America, few whites, blacks, or Hispanics have extensive experience or understanding of Asian culture. For experienced police officers, intelligence analysts, correctional officers, and prosecutors, the problems of cultural differences in behavior remain complex and problematic. This book addresses these specific law enforcement problems, and supplies law enforcement professionals with information and strategies for easier arrests, more accurate intelligence, more successful prosecutions, and fewer problems during incarceration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780849381164
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/13/1996
Pages:	462
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Douglas D. Daye

Table of Contents

Introduction: "If You Don't Have Much Time." Basics - What? Why? How? - Benefits, and Sources. Culture, Police, and Asian Crime. Cultural "Do's and Don'ts": Public Relationships. Person-to-Person Relationships. Interviewing Witnesses, Victims, and Monks. Witnesses and Some Cross-Cultural Aspects of Trials. Suspect's Records and Affiliations. Interrogating Suspects and Recruiting Informants. Numbers, Gambling, Tattoos, Food,. and Regionalism. Ethnic Mindsets, Profiles, and Religions: Contrasting Chinese and American Mindsets. Major Components of Chinese Mindsets. Ethnic Profile: The Chinese. Five Deep Cultural Mindsets. Is Reading Chinese Ethnic Strategists Relevant for Police? Chinese Language, Names, and Holidays. Ethnic Profile: The Vietnamese. Asian Buddhism and Chinese Confucianism. Recording, Preserving, Training, and Planning: Standard Telegraphic Code (STC). Preserving the Cross-Cultural Skills Police Already Possess. The Unnoticed Pressures on Asian-American Officers. Supplementing the Planning of Criminal Justice and In-Service Training Programs. A Criminal Justice Prejudice? Cross-Cultural Studies Belong to Social Science. Community Policing and Cross-Cultural Training Programs. Afterword. Appendix A: Chinese Triads, Triad Organizations, and Triad Relationships. Appendix B: Common Chinese Surnames and Notes on Chinese Language and Dialects. Appendix C: Guanxi: An Important Concept for the Law Enforcement Office. Appendix D: Overcoming Language and Cultural Barriers in Dealing with Asian Organized Crime. Appendix E: Chinese Culture and the Practice of Actuarial Intelligence. Glossary. Endnotes. Index.

Art: Use the Chinese symbol "Guanxi," which I have placed in the file and have attached to the flyer copy.

Editorial Reviews

"Douglas Daye provides an excellent "how to" source book for acquiring and applying cross-cultural skills within the realm of protecting Asian-American communities and fighting Asian organized crime. Anyone serious about working in the field of Asian investigations should add this resource to the library."
-Crime & Justice International
"Chock full of pithy and practical ideas, including checklists and 'Do's and Don'ts,' it is exactly what every police department dealing with Asian crime will want to have in its squad room."
- M. Cordell Hart, Senior Intelligence Analyst, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, Department of Treasury
"Cops who have been working in the field of Asian investigations for years will learn something from this book. Police officers who have never worked such cases will stand a better chance of success if they have it in their library. It is the kind of book that one will refer to again and again over the years. It is inevitable that this book will be used as the basis for testimony in criminal courts across America in coming years."
- Lt. Jack Willoughby, New Orleans Police Department
"This book is a 'must have' for any police intelligence operation as well as for any police academy staff that might even think of teaching their officers something about Asian crime and criminals."
- Lt. Jack Willoughby, New Orleans Police Department
"Cops who have been working in the field of Asian investigations for years will learn something from this book. Police officers who have never worked such cases will stand a better chance of success if they have it in their library. It is the kind of book that one will refer to again and again over the years. It is inevitable that this book will be used as the basis for testimony in criminal courts across America in coming years."
- Lt. Jack Willoughby, New Orleans Police Department

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