소년수형자의 처우 개선방안 연구

Abstract

Seeing the characteristic of juvenile delinquency that is happening in ourcountry, it is being indicated a qualitative change like lowering age, grouping, andtruculence, and a point as saying of being high in recidivism, as well as aquantitative rise in cases like violence, rip-off, and sexual assault by adolescents. What the juvenile delinquency is important is being further so in a sense ofwhich many people among adult criminals have experience of having committed acrime for the first time during childhood. In our society, a sight is strong that seescriminal problem as the one in the individual dimension. As for juveniledelinquency of growing with being expanded into lower age group, thesocio-environmental approach is effective rather than an individual adolescent. This study examined about a concept and characteristics of adolescents andjuvenile delinquency, and about characteristics of treatments in juvenile correctionalinstitution, and suggested the improvement plans for treatments such as first, planof treatment within the facility, second, plan of halfway treatment, third,community treatment, based on the present status of treatments for juvenileconvicts.