지역사회기반 교정시설의 교정프로그램 체크리스트(Correctional Program Checklist)도입을 위한 기초연구

Abstract

This fundamental study was executed to know if correctional program checklists(CPCs) can be used for domestic community-based juvenile correction facilities. For the purpose, efforts were made to look into the present situations of those facilities and their legal grounds and to examine how those facilities are evaluated. In addition, CPCs of the U.S., leading assessment scales of America, were introduced to figure out the applicability of these CPCs in Korea. According to important results, the nation’s community-based juvenile correction facilities are evaluated every three years under the Social Welfare Services Act. These facilities are assessed as social welfare facilities with residential facilities for disabled persons and vocational rehabilitation centers for them because they are children welfare centers for protecting and treating children. The small number of community-based juvenile correction facilities is not enough to establish sufficient indicators reflecting purposes or special nature of those establishments. In consequence, it is urgent to introduce such indicators for community-based juvenile correction facilities. In America, CPCs are used as indicators for evaluating community-based juvenile correction facilities. CPCs developed by the Center for Criminal Justice Research (CCJR) at University of Cincinnati. After research was conducted to figure out if those CPCs are applicable to the nation’s community-based juvenile correction facilities, it was found that CPCs conformed with belief of the nation’s juvenile corrections and could reflect practicability of the existing facilities. If the nation’s community-based juvenile correction facilities can be evaluated empirically, CPCs should be considered as a kind of “processes” and “means” to improve efficiency of programs provided by those facilities. Based on evaluation results, it will be possible to operate highly effective community-based juvenile correction facilities.