위증 범죄의 양형에 관한 경험적 연구: 제1기 양형기준 적용현황 분석

The purpose of this study is to analyze the status quo of the application of the first Korean sentencing guidelines for perjury offenders. The used data were obtained from the Prosecutorial Guideline System(PGS) of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, Republic of Korea. Based on the PGS data archive, we selected 387 available population cases of the perjury offenses which were sentenced from July 1, 2009 to September 30, 2010. To describe the type of crime, we mainly used descriptive statistics and t-test. In addition, the OLS regression was used to evaluate the appropriateness of the sentencing factors of perjury model in the sentencing guidelines. The results contain the frequency of the each sentencing factors, type of the decision, length of the sentencing factor, and power of the explanation of the sentencing factors in the context. The OLS regression results are showing that the contingent perjury, impact of the perjury on the court decision, instigator, previous conviction on same offending, and age are significant to predict the sentence length of perjury. However, the model of the sentencing guidelines for the perjury is inadequate as indicating low R2. The detailed significant and policy implication will be discussed in the context.