재범예방을 위한교정공무원 역량강화 방안 -법무연수원 교육과정을 중심으로-

Abstract

The last procedure in criminal justice system and decisive one for the prevention of recidivism lies in the correctional administration. Therefore, it is not too much to say that success or failure of the criminal justice system depend on the correctional officers' capabilities who are in charge of correctional administration. Through this thesis, we have tried to seek improvement plan for the courses and educational philosophy of the Legal Research and Training Institute which educates and trains the officers for their basic knowledges and specialities. Especially, we have compared various materials on which had been collected by visiting the correctional training centers in Germany and England which are considered as advanced nations on the point. We suggest several improvement measures for the reinforcement of Korean correctional officers' capabilities as follows. First, a training institute exclusively for correctional officers should be installed independently. Currently, the whole education for correctional officers is being charged by a department in the Legal Research and Training Institute. The Ministry of Justice consists of Prosecution Service, Korean Immigration Service, Correctional Service and so forth, so it is clear that various heterogeneous agencies are constituted synthetically in it. Particularly, estimated more than 16 thousand correctional officers get an absolute majority in the Ministry of Justice. Moreover, their works require not only simple administrative knowledge but psychological and sociological professionalism for the correction of inmates because installing designated establishment such as mock correctional facility, getting special education system and specialized instructors are needed when it comes to comparing with employing general public officials. There is an urgent need for installing respective local training institutes affiliated with the 4 regional correctional headquarters except for the Legal Research and Training Institute. Secondly. we need specialization of the educational courses. Much to our regret, they can offer only a few weeks of training course for the newly employed officers, 2 months for managing staffs in addition. As you see the examples in England and Germany, they should be qualified as the correctional treatments expert after finishing the two year courses. Thirdly, consumer-oriented training courses should be developed. For the effective training course, very various measures such as vitalization of cyber education, training on demand, visiting education are needed to be adapted successively. Fourthly, strengthening the capacity of instructors and increasing the number of them are required. Free from sticking to current small number of professor system will be transferred to a systemic one that secures outstanding instructors all the time. While bringing in a contest of appointment of professor, preliminary professor system and certification of inner-instructor system for it, we need to take professional management system for instructors.