이상동기 범죄의 개념에 대한 연구

Abstract

In Korea, approximately 50 crimes with a strage motive occur each year. This is only about 0.00003% of all crimes. However, it is very difficult to prevent these crimes because it is difficult to understand the motive of the crime. Crime with a strage motive is a crime in which someone is indiscriminately attacked and killed. It is also difficult to understand the reason for such an act. Crime with a strage motive creates social fear as an unknown danger that can come anytime and anywhere. The phenomenon of strange motive crimes first began to receive attention from the media in the late 1990s. Since then, various studies on these crimes have begun. At first, these crimes were referred to as random crimes. Investigative agencies began to use the expression strange motive crime. It focuses on the fact that it is difficult to understand the motive of the crime. The expression for these crimes has not yet been unified. The commonalities of these crimes are the strangeness of the motive and the randomness of the attack. In this way, strange motive crimes are a type of crime that is difficult to understand. This is precisely why some argue that we should not use the term motiveless crime or study it. However, we should not give up on finding the specific cause of crime with strage motive and devising appropriate countermeasures. If we examine the process by which crime with strage motive occurs, it has a roughly four-stage structure. ① The offender’s social maladjustment, ② rationalizing that the cause of the maladjustment is not him/herself but the social group, ③ accumulation of anger about the maladjustment, and ④ aggressive behavior due to the explosion of anger. Accordingly, crime with strage motive can be defined as 'a crime of a person who has failed to adapt to a social group forms anger toward the social group to which he/she tried to adapt, and when the anger toward that social group reaches an uncontrollable state, he/she attacks members of that social group as a way to vent his/her anger.’ Therefore, the fundamental cause of crime with strage motive can be found in social maladjustment. We should discover these in advance and devise countermeasures to prevent them from exploding.