전자감시제도의 활용방안에 관한 연구

Electronic watch system was recently introduced as an effective means of controlling certain criminal offenders. The law provides that criminals be required to be put an electronic surveillance device on their ankle so that they can be determined of their whereabouts and if they travel outside the permitted area an alarm will sound off. Such an electronic surveillance system goes beyond an introduction of a new criminal control system and gives a meaning that a new criminal control system overall has been established. Such an electronic surveillance system raises concern about violation of civil liberty and risk of double jeopardy, and since it deals with only certain types of criminal offenders there is an issue of infringement of equal rights. At the time of enactment of the law, the attachment of the device was to be made only to special sexual offenders but it has extended to child kidnapping and murder as it went through the third and fourth revisions. As the range of the applicable crimes has continuously expanded, it has drawn a lot of controversy. Accordingly, this study has analyzed and reviewed the various views and investigated specific ways and possibilities of implanting the electronic surveillance system in our criminal control system.