성매매재범방지정책으로서 ‘존 스쿨(John School)’에 대한 평가와 제언

This paper provides a proposal and evaluation of the so-called "John School". John school is a form of educational intervention aimed at clients of prostitutes, who are informally known as 'Johns' in North America. John schools are usually a diversion program for people - almost exclusively men - arrested for soliciting the services of a prostitute, or another related offense. Their focus is often on the experiences and harms of prostitution, such as the violence associated with prostitution, the sexually transmitted disease risks of prostitution, and the effects of prostitution on families and communities. The first comprehensive john school program was started in San Francisco in 1995 and Research in the United States shows that the recidivism rate amongst offenders was reduced from 8% to less than 5%. So, John schools was introduced in South Korea in 2005 as the prostitution prevention policy and this program is carried out as a Diversion with the (training programme) conditional suspension of indictment by the prosecutor. However, the reality of Prostitution in Korea is more complex and it is hard to expect our John School get the same effect is occurred in other countries. In this paper, I try to discuss John School calmly and reasonably. I evaluate the Significance, Justification, methodological problems, Limitation of John School. Upon further examination, I have determined that this program is effective in changing the attitudes of men that attend the program, but there are several improvements that the program organizers could implement to increase its effectiveness.