Why do ‘crime bosses’ settle in one place and not another? It is an intriguing and under researched question on which little has been written. In South Africa a cluster of individuals associated with organised crime moved into, or were associated with, a particular suburb: Bedfordview, south-east of Johannesburg. The most notorious was Radovan Krejcir, but he himself plugged into an established network of individuals with links to the underworld. This article, based on interviews with people close to high level crime figures or in political or civic leadership roles in Bedfordview, explores why this neighbourhood in particular was chosen. Our analysis suggests that a range of factors coalesced to make Bedfordview, an upper class predominantly white neighbourhood, attractive to organised crime figures. These include a combination of pull factors linked to geography, lifestyle, ethnic and infrastructural reasons that combined in a way that was unique in Johannesburg. Significantly, these were linked with a set of push factors that reflect changes in wider urban development and the upward (and geographic) mobility of a set of ‘businessmen' linked to grey or illegal markets in the city.

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地点，地点：Bedfordview的有组织犯罪的解决

为什么“犯罪老板”定居在一个地方而不是另一个地方？这是一个引人入胜且正在研究的问题，几乎没有写过。在南非，与有组织犯罪有关的一群人搬到某个郊区或与某个郊区有联系：约翰内斯堡东南部的Bedfordview。最臭名昭著的是拉多万·克雷吉尔（Radovan Krejcir），但他本人却加入了一个与黑社会有联系的人际网络。本文基于对接近高级犯罪人物或在Bedfordview担任政治或公民领导职务的人的采访，探讨了为什么特别选择这个社区。我们的分析表明，多种因素共同作用使上层阶级（主要是白人社区）Bedfordview吸引了有组织犯罪分子。其中包括与地理位置，生活方式，种族和基础设施原因相关的拉动因素的组合，这些因素在约翰内斯堡是独一无二的。重要的是，这些因素与一系列推动因素相关，这些因素反映了更广泛的城市发展变化以及与城市灰色或非法市场相关的一系列“商人”的向上（和地理）流动性。