징벌적 추징의 문제점과 개선방향

This dissertation studies about disciplinary confiscation. Disciplinary confiscation is not regulated in criminal law and special laws. The confiscation among many other punishments is mainly purposed for depriving profit so that Supreme Court confiscate from those who don’t have profit but, the disciplinary confiscation regulated in special laws including the Customs Law can be characterized as a punishment so that Supreme Court imposes collective responsibility to involved all criminals. However, that Supreme Court’s enactment of the Customs Law and other laws on disciplinary confiscation is censured by the view of violation of The principle of legality and The principle of responsibility. Because Supreme Court’s ground for acknowledging disciplinary confiscation is not clear and, imposes collective responsibility among criminals on the basis of the equivocal ground. To confirm the validity of the existing criticism on confiscation this dissertation first confirm the meaning of punishment and the legal character of disciplinary confiscation and shows disciplinary is similar to punishment. Next, it reveals Supreme Court’s acknowledgement of enactment of the Customs Law and other laws on disciplinary confiscation is incompatible with principle of legality after the close examination on Supreme Court’s ground of applying disciplinary confiscation. Finally, it defines Supreme Court’s imposing collective responsibility to all criminals is also violation of The principle of responsibility. Additionlly, this study concludes that the validity lies in the suggestion that Supreme Court should abolish the theory of disciplinary confiscation.