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 White paper on crime 2009 Part3/Chapter2/Section3/1 

Section 3  Treatment

1 Disposition in public prosecutors offices

  Fig. 3-2-3-1 shows the prosecution rate of persons associated with Boryokudan (refers to regular members or quasi-members of a group with a tendency to commit illegal violent acts habitually or as a group; hereinafter the same in this subsection) by type of offense in 2008 (See Appendix 2-3 for the prosecution rate over years).
  The prosecution rate of persons associated with Boryokudan for non-traffic penal code offenses and special act offenses excluding violations of road traffic related acts was remarkably high at 67.4% when compared with that of total persons finally disposed in public prosecutors offices at 48.6%.

Fig 3-2-3-1 Prosecution rate of persons associated with Boryokudan (by type of offense) (2008)