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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Authors: Baradel, Martina (Author) ; Bortolussi, Jacopo (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
In: Trends in organized crime
Year: 2021, Volume: 24, Issue: 2, Pages: 209-226
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Keywords:
Urban spaces
Neoliberalism
Visibility
Organised Crime
Yakuza
Japan