범죄피해자의 자기방어행위의 효과

The Impact of Victim Self Protection

This study assessed the impact of victim self protection(SP) actions on the outcomes of sexual assaults in Korea. Data on 79 sexual assault cases, not including rape cases, recorded in the 1997 and 1999 Korea Crime Victimization Survey were used to estimate multivariate models of crime outcomes with ordinal logistic regression. Results indicated that self-protection in general, both active and reactive, reduced the likelihood of injury, controlling for other variables. Results did not change after including 7 rape cases in the models. The positive effect of self-protection on the outcome did not depend on the victim’s age and the number of offenders but on the victim-offender relationship. When victims knew the sexual offender, the tactics including "threatening the offender"and "try to escape" were not effective in reducing injury. Although it was difficult to draw a conclusion on the effect of victim resistance given the limitation of the data, victim resistance appears to be generally a wise course of action.