From next year, it will be possible to search sex criminals’ information on the internet and the number of CCTV around elementary schools will be increased.
The period of wearing an electronic anklet is going to be extended and a way to collect and use criminals’ DNA information will be included in a new bill.
Related to ‘Cho Doo - soon incident,’ the government announced that they prepared ‘children sexual violence recurrence prevention countermeasures’(아동 성폭력 재발 방지 대책) to reinforce both punishment for a child sexual abuser and social watch at a joint minister conference hosted by Park Young-joon, vice-minister of Prime Minister office.
The information of sex offenders that has been permitted to search in the police station through the internet at the moment will be changed by the government into the way that it can be searched by anybody above 20 years old, using so called ‘ 성범죄 알림e’ on the internet as a precaution of sex crimes.
At the same time, they are going to broaden ‘안심 알리미,’ telling a situation where children are on their way home or school and ‘등하교 도우미,’ helping children go and leave the school for dual- income households.
Also, in the next year the government plans to install additional 2,000 CCTV at playgrounds and the parks, children protective areas, increasing the rate of installment of CCTV at 11,259 elementary schools across the nation from 55% up to 70%.
The administration to isolate sex offenders will extend the period of wearing an electronic anklet, and revise legislation to putting on probation to criminals wearing it. Moreover the regime plans to submit a bill to collect and facilitate DNA in this year.
Also the regime plans to broaden an attendance of a psychologist in an investigation into the a sex crime to make up for lacking evidence in children’s statement and prevent secondary damage by detailed statement on a child sex crime.
Park Young-joon, vice-minister of Prime Minister Office, said that we should find a way to increase concern of local self-governing groups, citing that to propel children-safety-countermeasures effectively the participation of the head of local self-governing groups and social groups is very essential.
I'm one of those guys who thinks that child sex offenders (really any sex offenders) are beyond repair. While I know that they can't be kept in jail forever, I am all for restricting their movements, jobs, and contacts.
The predator-tracking online maps (there are a few) are really quite scary. In the US, you can see exactly where people live who are sex offenders. Now, this is a little misleading since even those who were convicted of urinating in public can be marked as sex offenders, but none-the-less, it's a scary thing.
Do you think that something like that would ever happen in Korea (tracking of where sex offenders live, their names, and pictures)? Korea has traditionally leaned toward a focus on protection of identity rather than publicly outing criminals.
I'm one of those guys who thinks that child sex offenders (really any sex offenders) are beyond repair. While I know that they can't be kept in jail forever, I am all for restricting their movements, jobs, and contacts.
ReplyDeleteThe predator-tracking online maps (there are a few) are really quite scary. In the US, you can see exactly where people live who are sex offenders. Now, this is a little misleading since even those who were convicted of urinating in public can be marked as sex offenders, but none-the-less, it's a scary thing.
Do you think that something like that would ever happen in Korea (tracking of where sex offenders live, their names, and pictures)? Korea has traditionally leaned toward a focus on protection of identity rather than publicly outing criminals.
Dan