Regulations

This study aimed at showing present condition and direction for revision of Urban Regeneration Act in relating to urban regeneration areas evidently and finding the way of the activation of urban regeneration project and crime prevention. Most of the cities of our country faced with urban problems like overcrowding the city center, the apartment oriented housing, lack of urban infrastructure. Also, urban decline has had a negative external effect on urban residents and has become a key factor in maximizing the problem of quality of life in urban life. In particular, crime is the external effect that causes the greatest damage among various phenomena occurring in the city. In connection with this situation, the academic world has been interested in the urban regeneration. Urban regeneration means economic, social, physical, and environmental revitalization of a city which is declining due to depopulation, change of industrial structure, indiscriminate expansion of cities, deterioration of the dwelling condition, etc. by strengthening the local capacity, introducing and creating new functions, and utilizing the local resources. In previous studies related to urban regeneration, it has been shown that the integration of crime prevention factors in urban regeneration is essential. But the characteristic of Urban Regeneration Act is that there is no consideration of security or crime prevention for the urban regeneration area. Considering the ultimate goal of urban regeneration, it should be revised considering the crime prevention and security aspects of residents of urban regeneration area. First, the urban regeneration strategic plan should include additional items of crime prevention. Second, in this revitalization plan, it should be revised to include contents of crime prevention by referring to the ordinance for prevention of crime. Third, including crime prevention activities similar to current voluntary crime prevention activities in the activities of community company is one way to strengthen crime prevention activities in urban regeneration areas. These activities should be included in the contents of the Urban Regeneration Support Center. Fourth, in order to develop a cooperative system of crime prevention in urban regeneration areas, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety should be included in the head of the department concerned. As a result, the study suggested alternatives to ensuring the independence and sustainability of crime prevention activities.

The research ultimately aims at discovering measures to guide female marriage immigrants to establish a sense of identity as a social member of Korean societies through a proper adaptation, by proposing their available countermeasures to overcome difficulties in Korean societies. For such an accomplishment, specifically, conditions of female marriage immigrants are observed, and their difficulties are segmented. Difficulties suffered by domestic female marriage immigrants are observed in segments of communication due to lack of linguistic capability and differences, cultural difference, domestic violence and economic difficulties. To resolve the issues, countermeasures in socio-cultural and educational dimensions. Enhancement of responsive patterns and vitalization of police operations, and invigoration of various socio-cultural programs for female marriage immigrants are suggested for elimination of the socio-cultural problems. From an educational perspective, invigoration of Korean linguistic education, cultivation of professional teachers for culture education, organization of education supporting programs for female marriage immigrants and multi-cultural education for police officers are proposed. The research would significantly contribute to preparing measures for female marriage immigrants to settle in Korean societies as a member and to establish senses of belonging and self-identity.

The development and change of advanced technology has brought about changes in almost every sector of the nation and society, and this is the same aspect worldwide. While technological advances have provided convenience in life, crime is also becoming intelligent and emerging in new forms. These changes require new policing needs and the corresponding agility of the police. Despite the worsening environment of law enforcement, such as advanced crime, citizen’s demand for policing is increasing. Therefore, active use of technology has be-come essential for police activities. But we lack budget, infrastructure and attention. The revision of the Police Act provided legal ground for Policing Technology R&D, but systematic research is insufficient. Therefore, the study will assess the status of its and discuss future tasks in Korea.

The importance of understanding suggestibility in forensics increased the empirical research studies on how a number of factors influence suggestibility in children. This paper is to examine the relationship between cognitive factors such as language abilities, memory, theory of mind, creativity, and suggestibility in children. Previous research studies suggested that two categories such as language abilities, when a comprehensive language was measured, and creativity were found to have a consistent relationship with suggestibility. Implication for police officers and psychologists for interviewing children witnesses or victims were discussed.

This study is to analyze the characteristic of the Korean organized crime based on the general characteristic theory of organized crime. This study employs social network analysis to confirm what the characteristics of the Korean organized crime are and how they are linked with in personal, structural, and influential network. The study uses big data related to organized crime that can give implications to us to identify or understand the characteristic of organized crime in Korea. The research uses Web crawler on R project to collect texts related to organized crime from 1990 and 2018 on social media like major newspapers in Korea. This study collects 59,421 words by using Web crawler, but the raw data cannot be analyzed because of unstructured text. The study em-ploys text mining to process natural language and morphological analysis to extract adjectives and nouns. 54,759 are processed as natural languages and then 51,356 are extracted as meaningful and appropriate words for our research by using stemming analysis. The findings of the research illustrate that it is possible to present major characteristics of organized crime in Korea as follows: rational profit through crime, use of force or threat, organized hierarchy continuing, restricted membership, and oversea activity and refuge. These are similar to the characteristics of foreign organized crime, but there are significant differences in size and operation. Although it is hard to compare to the size and operation of Mafia, Triads, and Yakuza, the Korean organized crime apparently has organizational structure, activity, and power like an international organized crime. It is important to be recognized that the Korean organized crime has the potential possibility for developing into an international organized crime.

Stalking is a behavior tailing another constantly and repeatedly due to mere unilateral favor to the one even if it is opposed. Victims and assailants of stalking are mostly ‘acquaintances’, particularly ex-dating partners. Victims tend to passively respond to the constant harassment by assailants without informing outside due to own guilty of close ex-relationship, resulting in being victims of violent crimes, including rape, assault and murder. Furthermore, stalking is legally regulated only when it has been constantly committed, was felt as terrifying action, was overtly rejected and was committed with an intention. Thus, such behaviors by assailants with no legal qualification fulfillment are not regulated by law. The thesis would like to identify the notion, features, development condition and punishment upon stalking and to propose a preventive system against it.

With advances in digital technologies, vast quantities of information have been processed and reported in a digital form. This has resulted in an increase in the scale and number of crimes related to digital information, and the relative importance of digital evidence in criminal proceedings has also increased significantly. In addition, it is a reality that such a huge amount of evidence is confiscated in a digital form at the crime scene and submitted to the court, but digital evidence is still not recognized as satisfactory proof due to its characteristics as well as insufficient legal and institutional support. Likewise, although the importance of digital evidence continues to increase, there is still a lack of research on the technologies and procedures to ensure integrity, such as the prevention of forgery and tampering with acquired digital evidence. Since digital evidence is easily altered, tampered with or destroyed through improper handling, it has been faced with a challenge of securing the reliability of investigation and ensuring its integrity. Therefore, it is required to devise measures to ensure the integrity of digital evidence so that digital evidence can be accepted as legally valid in court. In this regard, this study proposed a method to guarantee the integrity of digital evidence by using blockchain technology that allows all nodes in the network to share distributed database securely with-out the use of a central server, and thus can prevent the forgery and tampering with data. The use of this method is expected to reduce the time and cost burden, while ensuring a high level of integrity.

The thesis recognizes and proposes an effective measures to prevent the recently occurring dating violence and their following secondary victimizations. Therefore, case analysis of dating violence and their following secondary victimization states as follows. First, by transition of recognitions on dating violence as crimes, reports by people should be activated and active intervention by judicial authorities should be enabled. Second, legislations should be amended to enable intensive penalties against a ssailants and to ensure personal protections. Third, by adopting One Stop system, rapid handling of affairs and protection and support of victims should be enabled. Lastly, development and utilization of a crime preventive smart watch should be prepared to enable 24 hours protection of victims

Purpose; The purpose of this study is to examine and analyze the English ability and operation status of the Korean tourism police officers, to find out the problems, and to find out more effective tourism police officer’s English ability according to the characteristics of the tourism police. For this purpose, we examined the English ability of the tourism police officers who are performing actual work, and analyzed the importance of English ability in accordance with some of the representative cases in tourist attractions around the world. Also, this study analyzed the problems and difficulties of English language ability that tourism police officers consider to be important in real work environment in order to make improvements in current English test and education system. As a result of examining the cases of foreign tourism police, the most common case of English utterance is when they need to give help in solving the inconveniences of foreign tourists while enjoying the visit in tourist attractions. The necessity of English was most emphasized in speaking and listening to the basic vocabulary and expressions used by foreign tourists, and the difference of accent by culture was one of the factors that caused difficulties in mutual communication. The main topic of communication between foreign tourists and tourism police officers was mainly on asking and responding to directions, giving some explanation of the tourism sites, taking complaints of various inconveniences around the attraction spots. Therefore, it is necessary to design the test and curriculum for a special purpose English required by the tourism police in order to meet the actual work condition.

The ultimate purpose of this study was to seek ways that multicultural background learners could adapt school life well and have sense of belonging to school as well as self-identity. For this, it classified types of school maladjustment of multicultural background learners based on the status of them and looked at responding measures in the educational and sociocultural aspects to solve these problems. Since the number of members who have a variety of langue and cultural backgrounds due to the expansion of exchanges between countries and cultures recently is increased, the Korean society changes to a multicultural society rapidly and the number of multicultural families is increasing. As the Korean society enters into the multicultural society, the number of multicultural background learners with various language and cultural back-grounds is swiftly increasing at school, a problem of Korean education for them is raised as a current issue and the phenomenon of not adjusting school life because of failure of communication, low school performance, identity crisis, and school violence problems, is increasing as well. Most multicultural background learners should experience lots of difficulties in adjusting to school life as they are not familiar with Korean language and culture most of all. The lack of Korean ability can be connected to low school performance and to school maladjustment. Thus, it is urgent for them to have a certain level of Korean most of all to grow as members of Korean society overcoming these difficulties. The difficulty in using Korean that they feel could be connected to low school performance, emotional anxiety, complaints against the society, and isolation. School maladjustment of multicultural background learners analyzed as difficulty of communication due to the lack of Korean and because of it, the difficulty in study performance due to the lack of basic learning, school violence due to the cultural, social, and physical differences and prejudice which came from the difference in the dual culture of their parents, and economic difficulty. As responding measures to solve these problems, it suggested the necessity of effective Korean education and the activation of systemic device in the educational level to improve multicultural background learners’ communication ability in Korean and study ability, in the sociocultural level, it suggested the improvement in ways of police response and activation of their activities as well as a variety of sociocultural programs, and it also suggested the preparation of scholarship system and effective operation for the responding measures in solving economic difficulties. This study will contribute that multicultural background learners could adjust school life well while establish-ing the sense of belonging and self-identity as members of school and Korean society.