19대 국회 의원발의 형법개정안 검토

An Analysis on the Penal Code Revision Bills Initiated by Legislators in the 19th National Assembly

The objective of this Article is to review the Penal Code Revision Bills initiated by legislators in the 19th National Assembly. Assemblymen submitted bills related with criminal issues that attracted the attention of the public mass. For instance, bills to revise criminal responsibility so as not to exempt the responsibility of the defendants who committed a crime under the influence of alcohol or drug, and bills to reconstruct the current monetary penalty system, which has been criticized for "inequality of penalty effect." These bills are political efforts to reflect in the Penal Code requests by the public mass. However, the bills are found to adopt hard-line criminal policy that depends on heavy and harsh punishment, and disregard systematic coherence with other criminal acts. On the other hand, many bills were initiated to revise the Special Part of the Penal Code. They were to update the Special Part, revising corpus delicti or providing new defenses.