Gang population Chinese government claims that police have eliminated 1,221 triad-style gangs across China since a crackdown was launched in 2006. More than 87,300 suspects have been arrested. The FBI estimates the size of the four Italian organized crime groups to be approximately 25,000 members and 250,000 affiliates worldwide. By country: Gang population Reports on the number of people involved in criminal gangs, by locale. There were at least 30,000 gangs and 800,000 gang members active across the USA in 2007. About 900,000 gang members lived "within local communities across the country," and about 147,000 were in U.S. prisons or jails in
The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa the cast of mostly female juvenile delinquents who show him their way of life. The original newspaper serialization was incomplete. The remaining sections were published concurrently in two literary journals, "Reconstruction" ("Kaizō", volume 12, number 9) and "New Currents" ("Shinchō", volume 27, number 9). Markedly different from Kawabata's later work, "The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa" was greatly influenced by Western modernism. The annotated edition of this novel, translated by Alisa Freedman, includes the original illustrations by Ota Saburo and a foreword and an afterword by Donald Richie. The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa In the 1920s, Asakusa was to Tokyo what