범죄피해자구조제도의 현황 및 개선방안

The Status of and the Improvement Proposal for Crime Victim Compensation Program -Focusing on Practical Approach-

Since the enforcement of Victim's Compensation System, there had been several legislative efforts to protect the status and human rights of crime victims in 1990s. However Compensation System for substantial protection of and support for the crime victims has not been emerged from the state of stagnation for 22 years after the enforcement. In order to identify what the reasons of the stagnation are, Compensation application chart, payment chart, the size of budget, revision history of related laws and so on have been compared and analyzed on the basis of 10 years after the enforcement of Compensation System in July 1988 until July 2014 present, in this study. Meanwhile, according to the analyzed information, the problems of protection of and support of victims system in the past could be summarized by severe legal restrictions, absence of government policies, lack of budget, indifferences and so on. Though these problems are not yet satisfactorily resolved, it is fortunate that viewpoint has been changed human right of crime victims must be balanced with that of assailant. The protection of and support for the crime victims will be gradually expanding from now on. Therefore above all, improvement of laws and system is most important. From this point of view, we introduce the problems and improvements that have been mostly raised in the practical services toward the crime victims in this study. However we acknowledge the improvements against the suggested problems are not yet fully studied ahead, and we expect this will be a small step toward the development of more advanced improvements proposal.