한국판 스토킹 위험성 평가 도구(K-SAS) 피해자 취약요인을 통한 스토킹 사건 위험성 평가

Abstract

Recently, in Korea, stalking has been a big social issue, and the way how to
 deal with it and how to support the victims has been also discussed with great
 interest. This study analyzed the scores of the victim vulnerability factors (V
 factors) of the Korean Stalking Assessment Scale (K-SAS) developed by Lee and
 her team(2023) to verify whether the severity of stalking cases is predictable with
 the V factors. To do so, 36 experts in charge of counseling and supporting
 victims at the sexual crime victim support center who had experienced stalking
 victims support evaluated two cases for each, a serious case and a mild case,
 based on the V factors of K-SAS. As a result of the analysis, it was found that
 the total score of the V factors significantly predicted the severity of the stalking
 cases, and as the total score of the V factors increased by 1 point, it is about 1.4
 times more likely to be one of the serious group, R2=.186, OR=1.411, p<.01.
 According to the ROC (Receiver Operating Characteristic) analysis, the optimal
 cut-point for discriminating the serious cases and the mild cases with the total
 score of the V factors was found to be 7 points (AUC=.653), which means that
 the V factors of the K-SAS can distinguishably predict the severity of stalking
 cases, and that the stalking case with the total score of 7 or more can be
 estimated as a serious case. The results of the correlation analysis between the
 scores of the each item and the total score suggest that the current victim
 protection by criminal justice system do not effectively lower the risk of stalking
 cases, or that the experts in charge of supporting victims regard it like that. And it is also suggested that the economic situation of the victims has a great
 influence on the risk of stalking cases and that the financial support for victims
 may be important to lower the risk of stalking cases.