A Study on Criminal Injury Types of Marriage Migrant Women in Multicultural Families and the POLICE’s Responses

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to suggest a plan which can minimize and solve criminal injuries of domestic violence that marriage migrant women in multicultural families who live in Korea experience in Korean society. For this, it concretely analyzed the domestic status of marriage migrant women in multicultural families, types and causes of criminal injuries of domestic violence that marriage migrant women in multicultural families who live in Korea experience in Korean society and examined the police’s responses to solve criminal injuries of domestic violence against them. It examined the criminal injury types of domestic violence that marriage migrant women in multicultural families experience by classifying them into physical violence, psychological violence, economic violence, and sexual violence. And the causes of criminal injuries of domestic violence against them were analyzed to be caused by a false sense of ownership of women, the phenomena that domestic violence which is rampant in society is connived, and rapidly changing social environment. And in order to solve these problems, it examined the police’s responses by classifying them into the institutional level, cooperation with other agencies, and the educational level. For the police’s responses at the institutional level, it suggested improvement of the police’s responsive ways, the vitalization of police activities, and the vitalization of various social and cultural programs for marriage migrant women in multicultural families. For the police’s responses through cooperation with other agencies, it discussed the creation of institutional devices for participating in crime prevention activities of domestic violence by connecting them to multicultural families, the immigration office, cities, counties, borough offices, multicultural centers, educational institutions, civic organizations, social welfare centers, etc. and active police-centered activities for preventing crimes of domestic violence. For the police’s responses at the educational level, it examined the necessity of requiring the operation and expansion of professional and effective multicultural educational programs targeting police officers.