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A Study on Treatment of Habitual Child Sex Offenders: Centering on Constitutional Discussion on Chemical Castration

These days, as child sex offenses have rapidly increased, ‘Protection Act from Sex Offense of Adolescents’ corresponding to Megan Act was enacted and Record and Release of Personal Identities of Sex Offenders was introduced to deal with the sex offense targeting children. Also ‘Global Positioning System Attachment Act’ to prevent second offender was enacted. Therefore, Electronic monitoring system was introduced as a new control measure to observe offenders. In 2007, using the murder of Hyejin and Yeseul as a chance, ‘Act of Prevention and Treatment of Habitual Child Sex Offender’ focusing on chemical castration was proposed before the National Assembly in September 2008. However, there is a great tension between pros and cons on introduction to medicinal treatment of sex offenders, which is presented as the biggest problem of infringement of human rights. Therefore, medicinal treatment of sex offenders as a new trend needs psychological and medical approaches, and should be discussed according to our situation through comparison with legislative examples of foreign countries.