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Was there an error in translation here?

>These criminals don’t belong to established yakuza groups, but they don’t have legitimate employment either. They make their living from violence or engage in crime on the side, in addition to their main job.

It seems to be saying they are part time criminals with real jobs, but it also says "they don't have legitimate employment".

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The alternation was kind of lost. The sense of the sentence is that hangure refers to people who have neither legitimate employment nor belong to an actual criminal organization but who make a living from violence or illegal activities; or else, it refers to people who may have legitimate employment, but make money in that way on the side.

legitimate employment == full-time job I guess

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