ERC Starting Grant · 2025
How do criminals communicate and organise across cultures?
The repression of organised criminal groups (OCGs) in a country can lead to a paradoxical outcome: their expansion abroad. In Japan, intensified actions against the yakuza, Japan's OCGs, over the past fifteen years have resulted not only in a reduction of formal membership, but also in a strategic exploration of opportunities beyond national borders. The yakuza's established trade networks in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China are well-documented, and recent reports indicate the emergence of branch offices in various East and Southeast Asian countries, such as Thailand, suggesting that they are becoming entrenched with local environments. While scholarship has examined why OCGs move, there is a…
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