The Study of Supporting Situations and Future Directions for Prevention of Juvenile DELINQUENCY from Multicultural Families in Republic of KOREA

Abstract

There are problems that budget and manpower are not fully used with overlapped service of each department and focusing on social welfare of policies of resident foreigners although there are rising crimes and criminal victims with increasing multicultural families. In terms of advanced research about multicultural families, only daily life and social welfare sides have been intensively studied on multicultural family's adjusted life in South Korea, domestic violence and support, children's adoption to school and social welfare service. This study has raised in needs of macroscopic and long-term point of view and confrontation against conflicts and confusion with risks of multicultural family's juvenile delinquency which can be a serious matter in Korean society in the future. Supporting situations and directions for prevention of multicultural family's juvenile delinquency have been analyzed in this study on the need for this purpose. The purpose of the study is to look through supporting situations and future directions for prevention of juvenile delinquency from multicultural families. There were in-depth interviews with related professionals from multicultural family support center for marriage migrant women and adolescents, youth support center and the police stations for the study from 8 to 10 January 2015. The results of in-depth interviews and case analysis are as below. The supporting projects are mainly focused on Korean language education and welfare. There is not enough publicity about the supports because of a lack of cooperation system among the organizations. Particularly, the supports for prevention of juvenile delinquency from multicultural families and school violence is nearly nonexistent. There is also the factor that breakaway of marriage migrant women has a bad influence on their children and leads to delinquency. Based on the analysis, we can discuss the following standpoints to establish political directions for prevention of juvenile delinquency from multicultural families. First, it is urgent to produce professional education programs for establishment of identity and fostering confidence as supporting programs for adolescents of multicultural families. Second, customized educational programs are needed for forming their right values and learning standards. Third, the supporting programs which strengthen or recover the relationships between parents and children are required. Fourth, the reasons of the occurrence of juvenile delinquency of multicultural families are school maladjustment, parents neglect, broken family, economic plight, low self-esteem and identity crisis etc. Fifth, cooperative infrastructure among related organizations is required for the supports of multicultural families and actual management of incidents with setting up combined organizations for prevention and response of the juvenile delinquency from multicultural families.