Business and the Risk of Crime in China Business and the Risk of Crime in China Roderic Broadhurst John Bacon-Shone Brigitte Bouhours Thierry Bouhours assisted by Lee Kingwa ASIAN STUDIES SERIES MONOGRAPH 3 THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY E PRESS E PRESS Published by ANU E Press The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200, Australia Email:
[email protected] This title is also available online at: http://epress.anu.edu.au/ National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry Title: Business and the risk of crime in China : the 2005-2006 China international crime against business survey / Roderic Broadhurst ... [et al.]. ISBN: 9781921862533 (pbk.) 9781921862540 (ebook) Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Subjects: Crime--China--21st century--Costs. Commercial crimes--China--21st century--Costs. Other Authors/Contributors: Broadhurst, Roderic G. Dewey Number: 345.510268 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. Cover design and layout by ANU E Press Cover image: The gods of wealth enter the home from everywhere, wealth, treasures and peace beckon; designer unknown, 1993; (Landsberger Collection) International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. Printed by Griffin Press This edition © 2011 ANU E Press Contents Foreword. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii Lu Jianping Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Acronyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1. Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 2. Crime and its Control in China. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 3. ICBS Instrument, Methodology and Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 4. Common Crimes against Business. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 5. Fraud, Bribery, Extortion and Other Crimes against Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 6. Predictors of Business Victimisation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 7. Reporting Crime Victimisation and Satisfaction with Police Response. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 8. Perceptions of Business Environment and Crime Trends. . . . . 171 9. Summary, Implications and Future Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 Appendix A. World Governance Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 Appendix B. Review of Business Victimisation Surveys . . . . . . . 221 Appendix C. Media Sources Used in Chapter 2: Crime and policing in Shanghai, Shenzhen and Xi’an . . . . . . 231 Appendix D. Hong Kong ICBS Pilot Survey, 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . 235 Appendix E. Schematic Overview of the ICBS China Questionnaire, 2004–05 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 Appendix F. ICBS China Questionnaire, 2004–05: Hong Kong version. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Appendix G. Victimisation by Common Crime by City, Business Sector and Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 Appendix H. Victimisation by Non-Conventional Crime by City, Business Sector and Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 Bibliography. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .