GPS 전자감시 성범죄자의 사회복귀 의지에 대한 연구

Abstract

This study aims at investigating the perceptions of GPS electronic monitoring among offenders who have recently completed the criminal order in South Korea. In particular, this study focuses on the crucial factors that might affect the level of rehabilitation of sex offenders who has experienced the GPS electronic monitoring. Few researches have considered how utilizing the global positioning system to track the location and whereabouts of sex offenders in community impacted sex offenders’ routine life and perceptions in terms of the rehabilitation of sex offenders. The present study collected data from 401 sex offenders who have experienced GPS electronic monitoring from April 2009 to September 2010. The data was gathered vis a self-administered questionnaires through the aid of the Korean Ministry of Justice and Probation Offices. The major independent variables of interest for the current study were measured as (1) the extent to which the GPS electronic monitoring are perceived as inconvenience to family members, (2) the extent to which the sanction helps offenders feel familiar with the GPS electronic monitoring tool, (3) the extent to which the sex offenders violate the electronic monitoring conditions, (4) the extent to which probation officers regulate the conditions violations with celerity, and (5) the extent to which the GPS electronic monitoring are perceived as being punitive to sex offenders who had worn the electronic monitoring. The multi-linear regression analysis demonstrated that marital status(being single), the level of familiarity with GPS electronic monitoring, the extent of condition violations, the extent of probation officers’ reaction toward conditions violations of sex offenders, and the level of the perceived punitiveness were statistically associated with the rehabilitation variable. Further policy implications with regard to GPS electronic monitoring system will be discussed in terms of the strength and weakness of the innovative sanction.