한국 다문화사회의 이해와 범죄 대응방안

Abstract

By spread of the movement of large scale population as overseas koreans, foreign workforce, a marriage emigrant etc. is increased rapidly, korea has changing quickly to multi-race․multi-cultural society. The number of foreigners residing in the country surpassed the 1 million mark in August, 2007 and reached 1.16 million, 2010 and is still rapidly rising. This dramatic change, however, also has brought some unexpected issues that need to be concerned. In this study, changes of multi-cultural society which is already experienced in Korea will be recognized and problems will be perceived by understanding of the multi-cultural society of Korea. After that, crimes of multi-cultural society and its countermeasures will be found out. First of all, as alternatives and understanding of multi-cultural society, directors of government officers holding high position or chiefs of police need to have close relationship with immigrants living in multi-cultural society. Local people and public institutions do their best for multi-cultural community as much as possible. Furthermore, artistic activities are needed to understand and combine multi-cultural society. Keeping an open mind is also important to accept foreigners as our neighbors. Reforming is implemented by cooperating various institutions in a systematic and integrated way. As police's crime prevention concerning multi-cultural society, professional experts must be employed and specialized department taking multi-cultural society needs to be established and enhanced. As increased number of immigrants is causing various crimes, computerized fingerprint must be established and expanded to identify immigrants as one of methods to reduce increased crime. Also, recruiting polices from immigrants will be useful to consult multi-cultural families and prevent crimes in multi-cultural society.