최근 우리나라의 중벌주의 입법경향에 대한 비판

In recent years brutal crimes such as serial killings, sexual violences occurred in succession and became serious problem in Korea. Mass media channels reported the chain of cases and many people began to think that present legal system is not sufficient to control the problem, punishing offenders with lenient sentences. In the face of a series of highly publicized incidents, korean government has kept enhancing its countermeasures to reduce heinous crimes through many special acts. Those include registration and disclosing of personal information of sex offenders, surveillance through electronic system(electronic ankle bracelet), and chemical castration. And korean government is taking steps to reintroduce protective custody, extended detention of convicted criminals, which was abolished because of violation of the Constitution in 2005, which bans punishing people twice for the same crime. Because most of the measures were concocted by the government hastily, probably at the behest of pubic opinion, controversial debate on those measures is crucial topic among policy makers and scholars. Korean government insist that those are necessarily conditions to reduce and manage the risk of repetition of crimes. But some people criticise that those measures are double jeopardy and excess charges, and are not effective to reduce repetition of those crimes. And they insist that psychological therapy and counseling can be more effective and rational than those tough actions. This paper will have a careful look the reasoning that are the grounds of introducing those countermeasures against brutal crimes. And this paper will also evaluate its efficiency based on many studies and data, and check its rightfulness from a standpoint of constitutionalism. Finally this paper will propose some directions to reform them.