Crime and Crime Control

Testing the Systemic Model of Social Disorganization Theory in South Korean Neighborhoods: A Latent Class Growth Analysis Approach to Specifying Pathways to Homicide

“…According to a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime report, Korea ranks sixth among 36 nations with market economies in homicide prevalence (Chawla, 2010c). Although the financial crisis and political stalemate in Korea in the 1990s contributed to an increase in homicide that peaked in 2009 (Joo, 2003), recent KNPA (2013, 2019) crime statistics show a substantial decline in the homicide rate since then. The homicide rate fell 17% between 2008 and 2013 (i.e., during the time period this study examined), and this downward trend appears to be ongoing (Hong et al, 2019).…”

Probation in the Republic of Korea: A compressed journey to public protection

“…In detailing briefly with South Korean urbanization and economic transformation during the last 30 years, this article also highlights the rising crime rate during the same period. As Joo (2003) acknowledges, crime in South Korea up to the middle of the 20th century, was lower than most of Asia as well as major Western nations. Joo (2003) attributes these lower crime rates to the traditional influence of a Confucian moral code which had an enormous influence over agrarian Korean society.…”

“…As Joo (2003) acknowledges, crime in South Korea up to the middle of the 20th century, was lower than most of Asia as well as major Western nations. Joo (2003) attributes these lower crime rates to the traditional influence of a Confucian moral code which had an enormous influence over agrarian Korean society. For Joo (2003), Confucianism emphasizes the importance of social stability, conforming to authority and the natural order, the notion of self development and the avoidance of conflict with others.…”

“…Joo (2003) attributes these lower crime rates to the traditional influence of a Confucian moral code which had an enormous influence over agrarian Korean society. For Joo (2003), Confucianism emphasizes the importance of social stability, conforming to authority and the natural order, the notion of self development and the avoidance of conflict with others. However, as Korea has industrialized and urbanized in three decades, the influence of such traditional moral codes have dramatically declined as have the position of the church, the school and the family in Korean social life (Joo, 2003).…”

Economic change and violence in cross-national, regional, and local perspectives

“…Some argue this crime boom was especially prevalent in the industrialized world (Fukuyama 1999), while others find evidence that booms in violence were limited to industrializing nations (LaFree and Drass 2002). More recent research explores the increase in violence in select groups of nations undergoing political and economic transitions, for example in the former Soviet Union (Pridemore and Kim 2006), the former Eastern Bloc nations (Karstedt 2003;Stamatel 2008;) as well as East Asian nations undergoing rapid economic change (Liu 2005;Joo 2003;Joo and Yoon 2008).…”