성범죄자 신상등록·신상공개· 신상고지 제도에 관한 소고

A Study on the Sex Offender Registration, Disclosure & Notification

As countermeasures for progressively intense sexual crimes, policies of registration, disclosure, and notification were initiated and effectuated. Our law strictly requires registration for a wide range of sexual crime. Further, the information of the offenders has been opened to the public as well as notified to the people in a certain group, based on the decision of the courts. There have been constant voices that these rules are incompatible with the constitutions. The constitutional court stated parts of it do, unlike the entire rules themselves do not violate the constitution. Therefore, reorganizing the current law is mandatory to settle this issue and operate the policies efficiently. It is necessary to shorten the registration period, which is too lengthy in the current, and to differentiate registration period on the degree of the crime. For the matter of disclosure and notification, the time disclosing or noticing and the range of the personal information should be reduced according to the possibility of crime repetition or extents of self-reproach. Improved standardization and efficiency are needed to the complicated laws and relative authorities stations of the present. Finally, any subsequent damage must be cautiously avoided in the course of executing orders of registration, disclosure, and notification.