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The Japanese Mafia: Yakuza, Law, and the State By Peter B. E. Hi
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- The Japanese Mafia: Yakuza, Law, and the State By Peter B. E. Hi
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- Subject Area
- Criminal Law
- Publication Name
- The Japanese Mafia: Yakuza, Law, and the State
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- Oxford University Press
- Subject
- Government, Sociology, Criminology
- Publication Year
- 2006
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- Language
- English
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- Number of Pages
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The Japanese mafia - known collectively as yakuza - has had a considerable influence on Japanese society over the past fifty years. Based on extensive Japanese language source material and interviews with criminals, police officers, lawyers, journalists, and scholars, this is the first English language academic monography to analyse Japan's criminal syndicates. Peter Hill argues that the essential characteristic of Japan's criminal syndicates is their provision of protection to consumers in Japan's under- and upper-worlds. In this respect they are analogous to the Sicilian Mafia, and the mafias of Russia, Hong Kong, and the United States. Although the yakuza's protective mafia role has existed at least since the end of the Second World War, and arguably longer, the range of economic transactions to which such protection has been afforded has not remained constant. The yakuza have undergone considerable change in their business activities over the last half-century. The two key factors driving this evolution have been the changes in the legal and law enforcement environment within which these groups must operate, and the economic opportunities available to them. This first factor demonstrates that the complex and ambiguous relationship between the yakuza and the state has always been more than purely symbiotic. With the introduction of the boryokudan (Iyakuza) countermeasures law in 1992, the relationship between the yakuza and the state has become more unambiguously antagonistic. Assessing the impact of this law is, however, problematic; the contemporaneous bursting of Japan's economic bubble at the beginning of the 1990s also profoundly and adversely influenced yakuza sources of income. It is impossible to completely disentangle the effects of these two events.By the end of the twentieth century, the outlook for the yakuza was bleak and offered no short-term prospect of amelioration. More profoundly, state-expropriation of protection markets formerly dominated by the yakuza suggests that the longer-term prospects for these groups are bleaker still: no longer, therefore, need the yakuza be seen as an inevitable and necessary evil.
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Criminal Law
Publication Name
The Japanese Mafia: Yakuza, Law, and the State
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Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Government, Sociology, Criminology
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
336 Pages
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234mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
488g
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