피해자 신변보호에 대한 경찰의 활동과 개선방안

A Study on the Improvement of Policing for Crime Victim and Witness Protection

Recently, crime victim is revictimized by offender for reporting to police, called ‘retaliatory crime’ is increasing. In particular, the relationship between victim and offender is an acquaintance or offender threat to criminal reporter and witness by reason of disadvantage statement besides a direct victim. Criminal Justice Organization, including Police, take a role of revealing the truth about crime and protecting victim and witness who give important information, so they should make sure to provide an institutional strategy for participating in criminal procedure safety. To do this, this paper examine for the protection system of crime victim based on the law. In detail, we can divided into assistant system, physical safety, personal information, also check personal information based on law. Furthermore, it draws features from Police Official Crime Statistics, features of criminal type and cases of retaliatory crime. Based on those, this paper examine the protection system of crime victim by Police from pre-investigation stage, discuss system’s problems and measures to improve. This paper discuss importance of policing for retaliatory crime and system’s problems and measures to improve further than existing researches suggested general policy proposal from checking law.