다문화가정의 가정폭력에 대한 경찰의 대응방안에 관한 연구

Abstract

As the society becomes globalized, there is a growing influx of foreign workers and immigrant spouses from overseas into our country. Specially, the women of southeast Asia enter our country to get a job and get married. As result, as society is changing into multi-cultural countries, not a single ethnic country, various social problems have recently arisen . Among them, Domestic violence of Multi-cultural family becomes such a serious social problem, not individual, to the point that the police must be obliged to intervene with their problems. Therefore, the police's active steps are needed to prevent domestic violence of Multi-cultural family and their initiative actions are regarded as choices to stop the secondary victimization. Thus, we should recognize the seriousness of the violent situation and that it is important for the police to intervene with their problems actively. But in terms of legal system, the intervention of the police toward the family violence is not clearly identified and the prejudice of multi-cultural family and nationality and race prevent the police from taking actions in solving the family violence which immigrant women face. In conclusion, this study shows that the meanings and characteristic of multi-cultural family and theoretic surroundings on family violence and the police's response. Also, based on the surroundings of theory, we analyzed how serious domestic violence was through analysis of examples and recognized how imperative its solutions are. The solutions which this study shows to us are as followings. First, The police should take regular and professional education about domestic violence. Second, The special act regarding domestic violence is to be revised. With the upgraded legal basis, the capability that the police have in reacting domestic violences should be enhanced to arrest the attackers on the spot. Third, It is necessary that the police be connected with outside agencies to play their role properly. Therefore, in police's response toward violence of multi-cultural family, there are necessity of education and continual public relation and of strengthening the recognition of the police and individuals about family violence including setting up various legal and systematic revisions.