Transcript Korean Institute of Criminology
Activities and International Cooperation of the Korean Institute of Criminology
Seong-Jin Yeon
A leading research institute in crime and criminal justice in Korea
Contents
1. About KIC 2. Organization 3. Major Activities 4. International Cooperation
About KIC
◈ Established under the KIC Act by the Ministry of Justice, 1988 ◈ National research institute in crime & criminal justice in Korea ◈ Consists of over 90 research and administration staff ◈ Official member of *UNPNI ◈ Mission statement
Developing new policy frameworks for crime and criminal justice
Building stronger international research networks
Providing practical information to the public and expanding national information services
Enhancing creativity and overall satisfaction of KIC family * UN Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme Network Institutes
Research Areas
Criminology&Criminal law Corrections Criminal Justice Reform Criminal&Criminal Procedure law
Organization
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Criminal law
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Criminology
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Sociology
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Psychology etc.
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Prosecutors
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Police officers
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Probation officers etc.
5 practitioners 70 Researchers 30 Administrative staff
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Human resource
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Management
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Budget plan
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Accounting
Major activities
1. Research 2.International
cooperation 6. Publication 5. Seminars & workshops 3.Library
service 4. Academic exchange
Major activities - Research
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Research outputs
- Over 1,000 articles and over 800 books (during the last two decades) ◈ 28
Research Projects in 2013 include:
- Survey and Analysis of Immigration Control Law for Enhancing Human Rights - A Study on Measures to Improve Judiciary Interpreting in Criminal Justice Procedures - The Countermeasures against Juvenile Bullying - Korean victimization and its Protection in Southeast Asia: Vietnam and Malaysia - Community-based management of sex offenders in Korea (II): An examination of electronics monitoring system - Studies on the Risk-Governing Criminal Law and Criminology in the Late-Modern Society (II) - Criminal Policy on the Confidentiality of Communications with the Network Neutrality
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Major activities – Academic exchange
MOU with 21 institutes and universities from 8 countries UNODC
UNODC, Vienna UNODC, Austria UNODC Regional Centre for East Asia and the Pacific, Thailand
USA
Jerry Lee Center of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania College of Criminal Justice, Sam Houston State University
Germany
Max-Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law Institute of Criminal Law and Justice, Göttingen University Deutschen Präventionstag
Finland Saudi Arabia China
HEUNI (European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control affiliated with UN) NAUSS (Naif Arab University for Security Sciences) Southwest University of Political Science and Law College for Criminal Law Science of Beijing Normal University National Institute of Law at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute for Crime Prevention of the Ministry of Justice Research Center of Criminal Jurisprudence of Renmin University
Major activities – Academic exchange
MOU with 16 institutes and universities from 12 countries Malaysia
CyberSecurity
Thailand
Office of the Attorney General
Indonesia
National Law Development Agency Ministry of Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Philippines
Office of the Special Envoy on Transnational Crime
Tanzania
Directorate of Public Prosecutions
Ethiopia
Ministry of Justice
Major activities - Publication
• Issues related to the criminal policies such as criminal law, crime trends, correction and rehabilitation • Issued annually • Trends and causes of crime, deviant behaviors, current controversies in criminal law and criminal justice • Official quarterly journal registered by the ‘National Research Foundation’ of Korea • KIC news, national and international crime trends, criminal policies, and related research and essays • Issued quarterly
Major activities – Library service
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KIC Library
is the largest library in the field of crime and criminal justice in Korea has more than 68,000 publications subscribes more than 100 journals from 15 countries provides online DBs such as SocINDEX with full text & Westlaw ◈
Public Service
Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics (CCJS) National Crime Victimization Survey Law Education Program for the Rule of Law
Major activities – International cooperation
12 th World Congress on Criminology
• organized by KIC in Seoul,
1998 UNPNI
• became a member of UNPNI in
2004 11 th UN Congress on Crime Prevention & Criminal Justice
• organized workshop on computer related crime in Bangkok,
2005 Virtual Forum against Cybercrime (VFAC) Project
• launched the project in accordance with UNODC in
2006
Major activities – International cooperation
Towards AsiaJust Programme
• began the program with UNODC Regional Center for East Asia and the Pacific in
2009 12 th UN Congress on Crime Prevention & Criminal Justice
• co-organized workshop on international criminal justice education in Brazil,
2010 4 th Annual Conference of the Asian Criminological Society
• Organized international conference of the Asian Criminological Society in Seoul,
2012
Virtual Forum against Cybercrime (VFAC)
Online-Training program ▣ Online classroom
for cybercrime investigation
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Technical assistance to law enforcement and judicial officials in Asia
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MOU with 9 public sector organizations
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over 100 trainees
Research Network ▣ Clearinghouse
for research resources of cybercrime for experts and specialists worldwide
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over 2800 news & trends articles
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over 120 worldwide statistics
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32 cybercrime experts work actively
Virtual Forum against Cybercrime (VFAC)
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MOU organizations 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
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Thailand,
Office of Attorney General
Tanzania,
Directorate of Public Prosecutions HQ
Virtual Forum against Cybercrime (VFAC)
Thank you!
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