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Activities and International Coop-eration of the Korean Institute of
Criminology
Seong-Jin Yeon
A leading research institute in crime and criminal justice in Korea
Contents
1. About KIC1. About KIC
2. Organization2. Organization
3. Major Activities3. Major Activities
4. International Cooperation4. International Cooperation
About KIC
◈ National research institute in crime & criminal justice in Korea
◈ Consists of over 90 research and administration staff
◈ Mission statement
Developing new policy frameworks for crime and criminal justice
Building stronger international research networks
Providing practical information to the public and expanding national information
services
Enhancing creativity and overall satisfaction of KIC family
◈ Established under the KIC Act by the Ministry of Justice, 1988
◈ Official member of *UNPNI
* UN Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme Network Institutes
Research Areas
Criminology&Criminal law
Corrections
Criminal Justice Reform Criminal&Criminal Pro-cedure law
Organization
70Researchers
30Administrative
staff5
practitioners
• Criminal
law
• Criminology
• Sociology
• Psychology
etc.
• Human resource
• Management
• Budget plan
• Accounting• Prosecutors
• Police officers
• Probation
officers
etc.
Major activities
2.Internationalcooperation
1. Research
6. Publication
5. Seminars &workshops
3.Libraryservice
4. Academicexchange
KIC
Major activities - Research
◈ 28 Research Projects in 2013 include: - Survey and Analysis of Immigration Control Law for Enhancing Human Rights - A Study on Measures to Improve Judiciary Interpreting in Criminal Justice Proce-dures - The Countermeasures against Juvenile Bullying - Korean victimization and its Protection in Southeast Asia: Vietnam and Malaysia - Community-based management of sex offenders in Korea (II): An examination of electronics monitoring system - Studies on the Risk-Governing Criminal Law and Criminology in the Late-Modern Society (II) - Criminal Policy on the Confidentiality of Communications with the Network Neutral-ity
[Further information can be found at: http://kic.re.kr/english/aboutus/major.asp]
◈ Research outputs
- Over 1,000 articles and over 800 books (during the last two decades)
Major activities – Academic exchange
MOU with 21 institutes and universities from 8 countries
UNODC UNODC, Vienna UNODC, Austria UNODC Regional Centre for East Asia and the Pacific, Thailand
USA Jerry Lee Center of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania College of Criminal Justice, Sam Houston State University
Germany Max-Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law Institute of Criminal Law and Justice, Göttingen University Deutschen Präventionstag
Finland HEUNI (European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control affiliated with UN)
Saudi Arabia NAUSS (Naif Arab University for Security Sciences)
China
Southwest University of Political Science and Law College for Criminal Law Science of Beijing Normal University National Institute of Law at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute for Crime Prevention of the Ministry of Justice Research Center of Criminal Jurisprudence of Renmin University
Major activities – Academic exchange
MOU with 16 institutes and universities from 12 countriesMalaysia CyberSecurity
Thailand Office of the Attorney General
Indonesia National Law Development Agency Ministry of Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Philippines Office of the Special Envoy on Transnational Crime
Tanzania Directorate of Public Prosecutions
Ethiopia Ministry of Justice
Major activities - Publication
KIC Research series
Korean Criminological Review
KIC Bulletin
• Issues related to the criminal policies such as criminal law, crime trends, correction and rehabilitation• Issued annually
• Trends and causes of crime, deviant behaviors, current controversies in criminal law and criminal justice• Official quarterly journal registered by the ‘National Research Foundation’ of Korea
• KIC news, national and international crime trends,
criminal policies, and related research and essays• Issued quarterly
Major activities – Library service
◈ KIC Library
is the largest library in the field of crime and criminal justice in Korea
has more than 68,000 publications subscribes more than 100 journals
from 15 countries provides online DBs such as SocINDEX with full text & Westlaw
◈ Public Service
Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics (CCJS) National Crime Victimization Survey Law Education Program for the Rule of Law
Major activities – International cooperation
• organized by KIC in Seoul, 1998
12th World Congress on Criminology
• became a member of UNPNI in 2004
UNPNI
• organized workshop on computer related crime in Bangkok, 2005
11th UN Congress on Crime Prevention & Criminal Justice
• launched the project in accordance with UNODC in 2006
Virtual Forum against Cybercrime (VFAC) Project
Major activities – International cooperation
• began the program with UNODC Regional Center for East Asia and the Pacific in 2009
Towards AsiaJust Programme
• co-organized workshop on international criminal justice education in Brazil, 2010
12th UN Congress on Crime Prevention & Criminal Justice
• Organized international conference of the Asian Criminological Soci-ety in Seoul, 2012
4th Annual Conference of the Asian Criminological Society
Virtual Forum against Cybercrime (VFAC)
Online-Training program
▣ Online classroom for cybercrime investigation▣ Technical assistance to law enforcement and judicial officials in Asia▣ MOU with 9 public sector organizations▣ over 100 trainees
Research Network
▣ Clearinghouse for research resources of cybercrime for experts and specialists worldwide▣ over 2800 news & trends articles▣ over 120 worldwide statistics ▣ 32 cybercrime experts work actively
Virtual Forum against Cybercrime (VFAC)
◈ MOU organizations
ㆍ Vietnam, The General Department of Police, Ministry of Public Security
ㆍ China, Institute for Crime Prevention, Ministry of Justice ㆍ Malaysia, CyberSecurity Malaysia ㆍ Indonesia, National Law Development Agency ㆍ Philippines, The Office of the Special Envoy on Transnational Crime
ㆍ Thailand - The Office of Justice Affairs - Office of the Attorney General (in process)
ㆍ Tanzania, Directorate of Public Prosecutions HQ ㆍ Ethiopia, Ministry of Justice
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012• Thailand, Office of Attorney General
• Tanzania, Directorate of Public Prosecutions HQ
Virtual Forum against Cybercrime (VFAC)
Thank you!
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