학교폭력 대응에 있어서 경찰개입 개선방안

Abstract

This study aims to explore multiagency collaboration against school violence focusing on the roles of the police in South Korea and Japan. In South Korea, the independent commissions have been established to deal with school violence, in which various agencies take part and the police in general play a key role. However, the system that is based on the multiagency commission has a number of problems. Firstly, there is no sufficient discretion for managers of schools. This does not help them to resolve various conflicts in the school by themselves, instead all problems should be sent to the commission without an exception. Secondly, the commission in fact plays a role as a court to judge only the guilty of the students rather than to lead them to develop. Finally, police officers working for the commissions cannot focus on dealing with school violence since they generally have various duties. In Japan, types of school violence are more complicated than in South Korea. Multiagency collaboration is also various on the basis of the natures of school violence. This is regarded as an effective method to prevent juvenile delinquencies and to develop children for the future. However, in South Korea, multiagency collaboration is not diverse and its role mainly puts the emphasis on severe punishment for offenders. This comparative study is not to find an alternative system to transplant into the Korean system for school violence as to gain insight into the current situation in South Korea. Furthermore, it can provide not only various concrete suggestions for adjusting roles of the multiagency commission but also a combined model from Japanese system to suggest the direction in which the Korean scheme should be developed. A number of methods can be suggested for the development of multiagency collaboration. They include redefinition of school violence, revision of multiagency collaboration, and implementation of restorative justice.