South Korea's openness of the Internet against the perpetrators photo reproduced spreading (Figure)
Korea recently PRC to children and young people to fight for the object of sexual crimes involving repeated heavy blows. Following the June 29 South Korea's National Assembly passed the "chemical castration bill," after the July 26 South Korea's Ministry of Women and the family again open its first 10 online sex offenders, information and picture photo. A result, web traffic surge, and even once appeared paralyzed, as of 27 pm, the site is still very difficult to open.
text: Peng To
PRC entered into force in January this year, according to South Korea "on the protection of children and young people from sexual abuse of law" amendments on the under 19 years of age adolescents and children and commit sexual crimes the possibility of a great man, to open his face in online photo and real name.
26 morning, South Korean "sex offender bulletin board" (www.sexoffender.go.kr) "launched" the 10-year-old male 20 to 50 facial photos, real name and sex crimes About criminal record. This year, 16 people were South Korean court conviction and ordered to disclose personal information online. Which, due to suspended the release of 10 people to become the first object to be online and open.
South Korea all adults over the age of 20 can log on the website view of sex crimes against children the latest personal data.
South Korean citizens to enter the "sex offender bulletin board" website, enter the ID number as long as verified by adults, you can see on the map the addresses of 10 sex offenders. Click figure to enter detailed information page, you can see the faces of sex offenders photos, names, age, height, weight and other basic information, and criminal record a simple introduction to the current address of residence and identity card registration is also very detailed.
will disclose more information
According to statistics, the amendment before the implementation of 3 years and 6 months, the South Korean total of 401 children and adolescents on sexual crimes "Sex offenders bulletin board" will open this year in September from these people's personal information. From next April, the South Korean Ministry of Justice's Web site will also publish more than 19 years old adult female sexual offender's personal information.
According to reports, "sex offender bulletin board" is the simultaneous access by allowing 6,000 hits in the design, but the opening is only 5 hours, on a sudden influx of more than 120,000 visitors, result has been at the site two days off the instability.
Korea would follow suit in California
PRC as the site of the official opening of South Korea became the world's openness offender photo of the second country, the first with this initiative are the United States. South Korea in the past, according to the law, children under the age of 13 sexual offender information can be found only at the local police station.
the South Korean government also plans to sex offenders in future personal data sent through the mail to living near families with children.
California has long set the openness of the personal information of offenders website (www.meganslaw.ca.gov), available in English, Chinese, Arabic, Russian version of 13 languages. Internet users can name, address, zip code, school information such as whether a nearby sex offenders live. Click into each sex offender profile page, I can see the top post of the scars, tattoos and all the criminal records and other personal information is extremely detailed, their addresses and even car navigation systems linked.
information does not allow reproduced spread
PRC Ministry of Korean women and the family said: "The online disclosure of personal information, of course, the factors of human rights violations, but taking into account the protection of children and adolescents great effect, eventually decided to introduce the system. "
Korea Gyeonggi Crystal Lee Professor of Psychology at the University of Crime, said:" There are reports that the United States that many sex offenders to be open for personal information and reduced to the homeless , the offender's family members are also very painful. Even so, from the larger public interest, I still consider it necessary to disclose personal information. "
but South Korea also provides that anyone who reproduced or disseminated on this site display personal information, will be sentenced to 5 years imprisonment or fined 50 million won.
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"chemical castration" with effect
AP June 29 South Korea's parliament passed the "objects for child sex crimes who, in order to prevent repeated or habitual crime prevention and treatment of Bill "(also known as" chemical castration bill ").
Under the Act, on the "sexual offenses targeting children," the first-time offenders and repeat offenders be chemically castrated. "Chemical castration" began in the United States, it is not real "castration" but a drug control law, by injection or taking hormones to reduce male sex offenders testosterone secretion, inhibition of sexual impulses, but not people loss of sexual potency.
Studies have shown that "chemical castration" does have effects. Johns Hopkins University Boshibolin receiving the 629 chemical castration for sex offenders tracking survey recidivism rate of only 8%.
