지방자치단체 범죄피해자 보호/지원 정책에 관한 연구

Abstract

Local governments have the most important role in protecting and supporting crime victims because they are closely related to victims of crime. However, since the implementation of the "Act of Crime Victims Protection 」in 2006, the protection and support policies for victims of crime have been driven by the state or private organizations. In other words, local governments have to play an important role between the state and the private organization in order to protect and support crime victims, but they are not doing enough. Therefore, local governments should look for an active role for the protection and support of crime victims. The local government's protection and support policy for crime victims is based on 「Act of Crime Victims Protection 」 and other related laws and ordinances. The ordinance related to the crime victims can be divided into the specific crime victim ordinance which is the victim of the elderly, children, women, etc. and the crime victim ordinance which is targeted to victims of all crimes. The protection and support policies for victims of specific crime by local governments seem to be relatively well operated, but in reality, most of the work is to provide budget to the related institutions rather than direct assistance to victims of crime. It makes it difficult to provide practical support for the protection and support of crime victims In addition, the Annual Implementation Plan contains more details on granting subsidies to the Crime Victim Support Center than the policies implemented directly by the local government. Therefore, this study suggests the following remedies for local governments to play an active role in crime victim protection / support policy. First, it is necessary to improve the promotion system in order to efficiently operate the protection and support policies for crime victims. In order to do this, the local governments must establish a dedicated department to oversee the crime victim protection policy. There is also a need to build a consultative body and a cooperative system in this regard. Second, it is necessary to change the policies related to the victims of the crime of local governments, which have little regional characteristics at present, to a project considering regional characteristics. Third, in order to actively promote the established policies, officials should be educated in relation to the victims of crime and actively promoted to local residents. Finally, local governments should be more interested in the education of volunteers, which can be considered as the actual promoters of crime victims' protection and support policies.