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Response to Foreigner Crime for Community Safety - Focused on the Foreign Affairs Police Activities -

  • Crisisonomy
  • Abbr : KRCEM
  • 2015, 11(8), pp.73-95
  • Publisher : Crisis and Emergency Management: Theory and Praxis
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Policy > Public Policy in general

CHO MIN SANG 1

1백석대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

Crime by foreigners has been a persistent concern which not only alarms people in Korea but also threatens the safety of community residents. it is necessary to have an integrative and comprehensive approach to the issue of foreigner crime, rather than to understand it as as specific task of specific organizations such as the police. Although the police carry out various activities to address foreigner crime, the criticisms against their activity include the lack of consideration of spatial clustering of foreigner residences and the lack of cooperation with related organizations and the community. This study focuses on the police activities as a way to ensure the community safety from foreigner crime. One of the noticeable problem of foreigner crime in Korea is that foreigner crimes have been growing rapidly demonstrating a unique pattern by nationality and region, and tend to be more organized. However, the police department handling foreiner crimes faces the shortage of independent capability and trained personnel, unequal distribution of workload, and the lack of education and training. Policy suggestions include strengthening the monitoring enforcement of foreigner crime, managing and renovating the areas of many foreigners, scaling up the sector in charge of foreigner crime, installing a hotline for foreign crime, and developing an integrative system handling foreign crimes effectively. organization in charge of foreigners criminal. Fourth, Foreigners crime related hotline should be established. Finally, the integration system should be established for foreign crimes.

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