kossda-korea social science data archive

Principal Investigator(s)

Kim, Ji Sun / Korean Institute of Criminology

Producer(s)

Korean Institute of Criminology

Abstract

The Korean Institute of Criminology has conducted the nation-wide victimization survey every 3 years since 1994. This survey is the 5th victimization survey conducted in Korea and it attempts to investigate the extent and aspects of criminal victimization, especially those undisclosed in official crime statistics, to discover specific characteristics of victims and offenders, and to analyze those factors affecting criminal victimization in Korea. In order allow comparative study with past victimization records selected questions were included from the past four surveys. This survey explores individual modes of living, crime trends, attitude towards crime and the seriousness of crime, crime prevention methods and the evaluation of crime preventive efforts of the police, and the types of crimes (theft of car parts, car theft, burglary-theft, burglary-robbery, personal theft(including pocket picking), personal robbery, assault, rape and other sexual assaults.

Keywords

crime victim crime injury crime fear of crime crime prevention everyday life police crime prevention traffic accidents car accident bribery organized violence rape sexual harassment sexual offences sexual assault theft burglary violent crime criminal assault injury crime prevention crime prevention measures neighborhood environment sexual assault auto theft car theft home break-in residential home burglary pickpocket bag snatcher auto crime crime against people crime against humanity self defense property crime

Subjects

Crime/ Safety

Series

Victimization Survey

Citation

Kim, Ji Sun. Criminal Victimization in Korea, 2006 : 5th Wave [Dataset]. Korean Institute of Criminology [Producers]. Korea Social Science Data Archive (KOSSDA) [Distributors], 2007-09-01, https://doi.org/10.22687/KOSSDA-A1-2006-0006-V1.0.

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