Under a setting sun: the spatial displacement of the yakuza and their longing for visibility

Spaces occupied by organised crime are usually kept secret, hidden, invisible. Japanese criminal syndicates, the yakuza, made instead visibility a key feature of the spaces they occupy through an overt display of their presence in the territory: in the past, a yakuza headquarter could have been inst...

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Autores principales: Baradel, Martina (Autor) ; Bortolussi, Jacopo (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2021
En: Trends in organized crime
Año: 2021, Volumen: 24, Número: 2, Páginas: 209-226
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