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The Impact of COVID-19 on Crime - Focused on 112 Report Data -
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코로나19가 범죄에 미친 영향 - 112 신고 데이터를 중심으로 -

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Lim Hyungjin (백석대학교) Kim Jeong Lim (Mercy College)
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한국경호경비학회 한국경호경비학회지 시큐리티연구 팬데믹특집 KCI Accredited Journals
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2020.1
Pages
233 - 254 (22page)

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This study examined what impact COVID-19 had on crime by using 112 report data. To that end, 112 report data for 42 months from January 2017 to June 2020 were collected. Time series graphs were used stepwise for the analysis in this study. The first step was to examine the overall trend of crime. The second step was to compare the monthly crime trends in the first half of 2017 to 2020. Finally, the third step was to analyze the monthly crime trends using the magnified graphs. Through these three steps, this study investigated how COVID-19 transformed total crime, robbery, theft, and assault. The results of the study showed that COVID-19 had a weak reduction effect on total crime, a weak increase effect on robbery, and a reduction effect on theft and assault. The weak increase effect on robbery caused by COVID-19 contradicts a U.S. research, which may be due to the difference in circumstances between South Korea and the United States. Based on the results of this study, several policy suggestions are possible. First, according to criminology theory (opportunity theory), COVID-19 was expected to lead to a lot of crime reduction. But, it was not so. Therefore, government agencies which are responsible for crime prevention, such as the police, need to closely analyze the causes and address them. Second, the impact of COVID-19 on crime varied from crime to crime. Therefore, in order to increase the effectiveness of crime prevention, it is necessary to concentrate the administrative power, such as the police, on those crimes that are increasing (e.g., robbery, domestic violence) in the situation of COVID-19.

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