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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