Conversations with a crime boss: Doing Asian criminal business

• Main Authors: HANIF, Nafis, FINDLAY, Mark
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2010
• Subjects: media piracy; enterprise theory; porosity between legitimate and illegitimate sectors; 'two-napkins' methodology; Asian Studies; Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2222; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3479/viewcontent/SSRN_id1531380.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Media piracy, in Malaysia, is organised through illicit negotiations between a dominant crime syndicate and consumers, street-corner gang leaders, the Malaysian police, custom officers and directors of the Malaysian Film Censorship Board. These key social actors who crossover class, race, religion,...