In South Korea, school violence has been highlighted as a major social problem since the mid-1990s, with the trend of underage, cruelty, and collectivization since school violence became discussed in the media. To respond to the issue of school violence, the School Violence Prevention and Countermeasures Act (SVPCA) was enacted in 2004, and has undergone several revisions since. The current law on prevention of and countermeasures against school violence, which took effect in March 2020, is the latest revision to the law. The SVPCA has been responding to the changing aspects of school violence by introducing supplementary provisions for each revision. However, the law is not a perfect response to the related social problems. From this perspective, this study aims to examine the main contents and limitations of the recently revised March 2020 SVPCA, and to consider the tasks based on this. This study looked at the revisions of the SVPCA through previous studies and literature related to the SVPCA. After that, the contents, issues, limitations, and tasks of the revised SVPCA were reviewed. As such, this study was able to examine the school violence review committee"s manpower problem, the school workload, and the retention of school life records in the revised SVPCA. In addition, the need to revise reorganizing the SVPCA from a restorative justice perspective was also highlighted. This study is considered meaningful in that it argues for improvement by examining the necessity, issues, and limitations of the revised SVPCA from a restorative justice perspective.
In South Korea, school violence has been highlighted as a major social problem since the mid-1990s, with the trend of underage, cruelty, and collectivization since school violence became discussed in the media. To respond to the issue of school violence, the School Violence Prevention and Countermeasures Act (SVPCA) was enacted in 2004, and has undergone several revisions since. The current law on prevention of and countermeasures against school violence, which took effect in March 2020, is the latest revision to the law. The SVPCA has been responding to the changing aspects of school violence by introducing supplementary provisions for each revision. However, the law is not a perfect response to the related social problems. From this perspective, this study aims to examine the main contents and limitations of the recently revised March 2020 SVPCA, and to consider the tasks based on this. This study looked at the revisions of the SVPCA through previous studies and literature related to the SVPCA. After that, the contents, issues, limitations, and tasks of the revised SVPCA were reviewed. As such, this study was able to examine the school violence review committee"s manpower problem, the school workload, and the retention of school life records in the revised SVPCA. In addition, the need to revise reorganizing the SVPCA from a restorative justice perspective was also highlighted. This study is considered meaningful in that it argues for improvement by examining the necessity, issues, and limitations of the revised SVPCA from a restorative justice perspective.
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