피해자관련 요인과 양형: 폭력범을 중심으로

Victim-Related Factors and Sentence Severity for Violent Criminals

This study tests the effects of victim-related factors on sentencing among Korean male and female violent criminals. The data come from a survey of 171 inmates in three correctional facilities in S. Korea, 2008. This study is a sort of retrospective one because sentencing as the dependent variable precedes the time point of survey. It is, however, relevant since we can utilize many victim-related factors as predictors that are usually not available in a survey of formal investigation or trial records. The biggest portions among male subjects' crime types are murder, sexual crimes, assault and injury while most of female subjects are murdereial The results are presented in a series of consecutive modelal The final model includes four demographic factors (gender, age, education, and religion), oortise gravity score, criminal career, as control variables, and oore victim-related factors such as number of victims, whether having a woman victim, whether having a victim uions age, whether having an aged victim, whether a victim drunken, whether a victim's provocation, whether having an old conflict with the victim, sympathy for the victims, and victim-offender relationship. Among the victim-related factors, the effects of 'number of victims,' 'whether having a victim under age,' 'whether a victim's provocation,' and 'sympathy for the victims,' were significant. The effects of control variables were mostly significant except that of education.