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10 Asian J. Criminology 1 (2015)

handle is hein.journals/asjrcrm10 and id is 1 raw text is: Asian Criminology (2015) 10:1-6 DOI 10.1007/s11417-015-9209-y Crime and Criminal Justice in South Korea: Editor's Introduction Heejong Jacob Joo Received: 26 December 2014 /Accepted: 12 January 2015 /Published online: 6 February 2015 O Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015 Abstract As compared to the well-known success stories of South Korea in the areas of economic development, technology, education, and culture, topics in crime and criminal justice in South Korea are still relatively unknown to the world community. This might be the result of two major factors: the relative paucity of peer-reviewed journal articles and other publications published in English on crime and criminal justice in South Korea and the scarcity of large and systematic data sources available for empirical research. Considering the fact that the majority of previous studies in criminology and criminal justice were based on Western or American samples, it is not certain if the empirical findings from Western societies can be directly applied to non-Western Asian countries, which have different values, cultures, and social structures. Therefore, this special issue expands the scope of the Western-driven previous literature by introducing six cross-cultural empirical studies regarding some of the major crime and criminal justice issues in South Korea using empirical data collected there. This introduction to this special issue provides a preliminary overview of the six articles, two of which focus on police stressors, job satisfaction, and police officers' turnover intention. The other articles look at police officer's attitudes toward the use of force, household crime victimization, dynamics of the victim-perpetrator relationship in child sexual abuse, and the correlates of recidivism among juvenile offenders. Keywords Crime - Criminal justice - South Korea - Police use of force - Police stress - Police turnover intention - Crime victimization - Juvenile recidivism The papers presented in this special issue highlight several important issues regarding policing, crime victimization, and juvenile recidivism in South Korea and utilize a variety of official or survey data collected in South Korea. Of the six studies presented, three focus on the area of policing, two examine crime victimization, and one explores juvenile recidivism. The first two articles investigate the relationship between Korean police officers' job stress and their turnover intention. Considering the fact that policing is very stressful job and that police duty requires increasingly higher level of training, certification, and professionalism, retaining well- trained, experienced, and competent police officers is a critical issue in securing quality police H. J. Joo (E) Department of Criminal Justice, California State University-Bakersfield, 9001 Stockdale Highway, Bakersfield, CA 93311-1022, USA e-mail: hjool@csub.edu 4Z Springer

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