소년분류심사에 관한 문제점과 개선방안

Abstract

Recently, criminals' mental properties are becoming more and more of a major issue, due to the increasing number of crimes with unclear motive and target, which are aimed at unspecified individuals. Hence, the usefulness of the evaluation for classification which presents general comprehension about each individual prisoner is now more than ever, the main center of attention. Particularly, the purpose of classification of juvenile prisoners is not to distinguish between the juvenile delinquents and adult criminals for placing emphasis on the facts constituting an offence. Rather, it is to find the antisocial personality and environment which are behind the facts constituting a crime, and to establish the educational and protective measures about that, for pursuing the sound promotion of the juvenile. Today, correctional program is now becoming one of the functions of correction and reformation. It is doing so, as the most fundamental and core system that scientifically analyzes the cause of crime of each individual, and formation process of the personality. It does this in order to present reasonable treatment measures for prevention of the spread of crime. It establishes the standard of individual treatment, and prevents the correctional institute from becoming a crime school. Among them, evaluation system for juvenile classification is an advanced system, which inquests into the reason for the possibilities of prevention and improvement. It presents individual instruction and treatment directions appropriate for each property, and the importance and weight of the system has been gradually being enlarged. To follow this tendency, it is most adequate under the current legislative system which systematically strengthens itself through establishing more detailed regulations about evaluation for juvenile classification than past models. However, from the results of thorough analysis of current evaluation system for juvenile classification, it is truly doubtful that we have overcome the typical perfunctory classification. It is generally said that youths are our future, however we relatively put less attention on prevention of increasing juvenile crimes and treatment for juvenile criminals. Although we have been diversifying the treatments for juvenile crimes and under the Act of treatment for youth in custody, we also have been introducing advanced systems for the treatment, correction and reformation of youths put into juvenile reformatory, but it is difficult to expect its effectiveness, unless the precise analysis for the properties of these juvenile objects has been performed. According to these points, more in-depth study and effort for improvement are obviously required through recognizing once more the importance of evaluation for juvenile classification that combines the analyses and diagnoses not only for their general individual qualities such as characters and properties of behaviors, abilities and desires but also for the environmental properties surrounding them such as family, school and society and presents the reasonable treatment measures.