CRIME IN KOREA

Ron NaMYP5

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Crime in Korea Organized crime in Korea Dealing with crime in Korea

Crime in Korea

Study Question No.3: Chart a crime explaining its affect on and the role of these groups (criminal, victim, so-ciety, police, courts, corrections). Seek to explain the psychology or motives of the prisoner. You might draw on a real case or make a com-posite case.

Crime in Korea

The crime rate in Korea is relatively low

2003-382,833.0 2004-392,377.0 2005-350,505.0 2006-346,733.0 2007-355,754.0 (Crime in Seoul, Kosis.kr)

Crime in Korea-Juvenile delinquency The serious problem in Korea these days: juvenile

delinquency Includes: sexual assault(rape) , kidnap, drug,

murder, prostitution and even secret burial. The penalty is relatively light 2003-91,153 2004-92,372 2005-85,722 2006-92,642 2007-114,106 It has been increasing since 2005(Kosis.kr, Juve-

nile delinquency)

Juvenile delinquency

Criminal is mostly teenagers with less amount of personality education by their parents. They are still considered young in the society.

Victims are mostly whom criminals dislike even can be adult, and they get severe psychological wound.

Society and parents are being criti-cized for lack of personality education to the juveniles.

Police and the government has tighten up the law for the juveniles as an at-tempt to solve the problem, but the ju-venile delinquency doesn’t seem to be solved.

As the juveniles are still considered young, they are not fully punished for what they did, and parents are also pun-ished for their children’s fault.

The motives come from hatred and im-pulsive desire to commit crime. There are many causes that made those juve-niles to criminals.

Example

From News1.kr 2 Korean high school students

stabbed 20years old male for over 40 times and the man was found dead in a park in Seoul.

Motives are not clear yet, but the students said that they were study-ing about how to get rid of demons from internet blog

Causes of Juvenile Delin-quency Korea’s high growth of social econ-

omy in very short time Lack of personality education due to

the busy modern life Violence from video games and TV Influence from peers

Organized crime in Korea

Study Question No.6: Examine the role of organized crime in your coun-try. What types of crimes or activi-ties are they involved in? How are they organized? How do the police seek to deal with them? Explain the attraction of gangs but also the diffi-culty of getting out of one.

Organized crime in Korea

Organized crime in Korea is mostly impulsive, not very critical to the so-ciety

According to Korean criminal law, it is defined as “Crime associated with organizing or joining group which has purpose on committing crime, eva-sion of military service or tax eva-sion”

There are terms for gangs in Korea called “Kkangpae”

Kkangpae

They are not considered very serious in Korea but recently they are caus-ing some problems.

They are usually harmless to inno-cent citizens.

They are involved in ( ) They usually fight against other

gangs and they also use weapons such as bat and knife.

Polices are criticized for unskilled ability to deal with gangs.

Dealing with crime

Study question No.7: Describe a novel approach in trying to deal with crime- prevention, policing, helping victims, restitution, rehabilitation, that is being undertaken in your country.

Prevention of crime in Korea Prevention of crime Removing causes of crime and inten-

sifying causes that deters crime

For the victims

It is considered fair to compensate for victims’ psychological and physi-cal damage because the country couldn’t protect victims from the crime.

Dealing with crime in Ko-rea In Korea, other than punishing crimi-

nals, there are more ways to deal with crime:

Probation Public service Electronic tagging

Probation

Probation allows a convicted defendant to go free with a suspended sentence for a specified duration during good behavior. Probationers are placed under the super-vision of a probation officer and must ful-fill certain conditions. If the probationer violates a condition of probation, the court may place additional restrictions on the probationer or order the probationer to serve a term of imprisonment.(probation, legal-dictionary.com)

Electronic tagging

Detached to criminals mostly, ob-serving the criminals movement us-ing GPS technology

Good example of prevention of crime One flaw is that the respond is not

really fast enough to prevent impul-sive crime

Bibliography

Works Cited "Prevention of Crime in Korea." Nate. Web. 12

June 2012. <http://ask.nate.com/knote/view.html?num=3195320>.

"Teenagers Stabbed Person 40 times." Korea News 1. Web. 12 June 2012. <http://news1.kr/articles/655237>.

http://kosis.kr/index/index.jsp (Korean statistics) "Probation." Naver Encyclopedia. Web. 12 June

2012. <http://100.naver.com/100.nhn?docid=73747>.t