Slang Down The Ages. A Historical Development Of Slang

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Kyle Cathie
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2003
Edition: First Edition

Description: 393 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The Japanese mafia - known collectively as yakuza - has had an extensive influence on Japanese society over the past 50 years. Based on extensive interviews with criminals, police officers, lawyers, journalists, and academics, this is an analysis in English of Japans criminal syndicates. Peter Hill argues that the essential characteristic of Japans criminal syndicates is their provision of protection to consumers in Japans 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 yakuzas protective mafia role has existed at least since the end of World War II and arguably longer, their sources of income have 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.

ISBN: 9781856264792