Ron Na MYP5

Content  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, society, police, courts, corrections). Seek to explain the psychology or motives of the prisoner. You might draw on a real case or make a composite case.

Crime in Korea  The crime rate in Korea is relatively low  ,833.0  ,377.0  ,505.0  ,733.0  ,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  ,153  ,372  ,722  ,642  ,106  It has been increasing since 2005(Kosis.kr, Juvenile 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 criticized for lack of personality education to the juveniles.

 Police and the government has tighten up the law for the juveniles as an attempt to solve the problem, but the juvenile 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 punished for their children’s fault.  The motives come from hatred and impulsive desire to commit crime. There are many causes that made those juveniles 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 studying about how to get rid of demons from internet blog

Causes of Juvenile Delinquency  Korea’s high growth of social economy 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 country. What types of crimes or activities 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 difficulty of getting out of one.

Organized crime in Korea  Organized crime in Korea is mostly impulsive, not very critical to the society  According to Korean criminal law, it is defined as “Crime associated with organizing or joining group which has purpose on committing crime, evasion of military service or tax evasion”  There are terms for gangs in Korea called “Kkangpae”

Kkangpae  They are not considered very serious in Korea but recently they are causing some problems.  They are usually harmless to innocent 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 intensifying causes that deters crime

For the victims  It is considered fair to compensate for victims’ psychological and physical damage because the country couldn’t protect victims from the crime.

Dealing with crime in Korea  In Korea, other than punishing criminals, 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 supervision of a probation officer and must fulfill 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, observing the criminals movement using GPS technology  Good example of prevention of crime  One flaw is that the respond is not really fast enough to prevent impulsive crime

Bibliography  Works Cited  "Prevention of Crime in Korea." Nate. Web. 12 June  "Teenagers Stabbed Person 40 times." Korea News 1. Web. 12 June  (Korean statistics)  "Probation." Naver Encyclopedia. Web. 12 June t