Martina Baradel is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Law of Nagoya University, Japan, and associate member of the Department of Sociology, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on organised crime, criminal governance, and the transformation of the yakuza in contemporary Japan. She combines ethnographic fieldwork with comparative and sociological approaches to understand the social organisation of illicit groups. She previously held a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellowship at the University of Oxford, and her work has appeared in leading journals in criminology and Japanese studies.

• Introduction 1: Doing fieldwork with the yakuza 2: Illicit authorities: A history of yakuza governance 3: Reputation through structure, rules, and rituals 4: Policy, policing, and punishment 5: Regulating markets 6: Post yakuza Conclusion Appendix A: List of Designated Yakuza Groups with Headquarter Location and Current Boss

Martina Baradel is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Law of Nagoya University, Japan, and associate member of the Department of Sociology, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on organised crime, criminal governance, and the transformation of the yakuza in contemporary Japan. She combines ethnographic fieldwork with comparative and sociological approaches to understand the social organisation of illicit groups. She previously held a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellowship at the University of Oxford, and her work has appeared in leading journals in criminology and Japanese studies.

• Introduction 1: Doing fieldwork with the yakuza 2: Illicit authorities: A history of yakuza governance 3: Reputation through structure, rules, and rituals 4: Policy, policing, and punishment 5: Regulating markets 6: Post yakuza Conclusion Appendix A: List of Designated Yakuza Groups with Headquarter Location and Current Boss

Martina Baradel is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Law of Nagoya University, Japan, and associate member of the Department of Sociology, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on organised crime, criminal governance, and the transformation of the yakuza in contemporary Japan. She combines ethnographic fieldwork with comparative and sociological approaches to understand the social organisation of illicit groups. She previously held a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellowship at the University of Oxford, and her work has appeared in leading journals in criminology and Japanese studies.

• Introduction 1: Doing fieldwork with the yakuza 2: Illicit authorities: A history of yakuza governance 3: Reputation through structure, rules, and rituals 4: Policy, policing, and punishment 5: Regulating markets 6: Post yakuza Conclusion Appendix A: List of Designated Yakuza Groups with Headquarter Location and Current Boss