북한이탈주민과 일반 국민의 범죄 및 범죄피해 경험 비교

Abstract

This study is to verify differences between North Korean refugees and South Korean citizens in illegal activities and criminal damages. To do this, this paper utilizes survey data on 800 North Korean refugees who are over 19 and have stayed in South Korea for more than one year and 1004 South Korean citizens who are over the age of 19 and residing in the metropolitan area, and they were selected by using quota sampling method according to area-, sex-, and age-specific rates. According to the analysis results, the male groups in both North Korean refugees and South Korean citizens reported to have a similar level of appearances to the police station due to illegal activities, experiences of going on trial, and criminal damages. But North Korean escapees demonstrated a remarkably higher degree in experiences of situations in which legal assistance was needed. The female groups in both North Korean refugees and South Korean citizens, compared to their male counterparts, showed much lower levels in involvement of illegal activities and criminal damages. Also, another noteworthy is that female North Korean refugees demonstrated a significantly lower rate compared to their South Korean counterparts in experiences of criminal damage, as well as experiences of situations in which legal assistance was needed. They were found to suffer a remarkably lower rate of criminal damages, which seems to attribute to the fact that many of them are recipients of the assistance for basic living cost and their living area is limited only to their neighborhoods. In sum up, illegal activities and criminal damages of North Korean refugees can be assessed to be stable compared with their South Korean citizen. And North Korean escapees were found to have a lower rate of experiences in which legal assistance was needed, it might be because they live within the limit of their residences and job market.