The Study on the Police Response to Domestic Violence in Korea - Focusing on Victim Protection in the Course of Police Investigation

• 영문명: The Study on the Police Response to Domestic Violence in Korea
• 발행기관: 아시아경찰학회
• 저자명: Jae-Min Kim
• 간행물 정보: 『아시아경찰학회 국제학술회의』The 2006 7th AAPS Annual Conference Proceeding, 161~172쪽, 전체 12쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 행정학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2006.09.30

영문 초록

  The importance of the criminal victim protection in the criminal investigation process, more than we have ever thought, has been widely known in these days. Recently, Korean police officer"s behavioral patterns for criminal victims have been remarkably improved than ever before, since the Office for Victims of Police Agency launched in 2004. The same may be said of domestic violence victim.
  Nevertheless, it has had a still great importance how the police properly assist and protect the domestic violence victims in Korea, especially in the stage of preliminary investigation. Because the effort to meet the domestic violence victim"s needs has a great effect on victims" rapid recovery from the impact of crime and securing their personal safety on that stage of investigation.
  This paper is mainly focused on the police initial response to domestic violence in the phase of the preliminary investigation. Several recommendations which might be helpful for the victims in that phase will be suggested, including various improvement strategies regarding not only police behavioral patterns but also the police response systems and the revision of the Special Domestic Violence Act.
  The practice of these recommendations will be able to produce such a good result for the police investigators to get the credibility from all the people including the criminal victims.

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Abstract
Introduction
Definition of domestic violence in Korea
Theoretical background of police response system
The Situationof thePoliceResponse against DomesticViolenceinKorea
The Strategies to protect Victim effectively in Domestic Violence Cases
Conclusion
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