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KMID : 0357819930170020051
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Korean Journal of Legal Medicine
1993 Volume.17 No. 2 p.51 ~ p.50
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The Situation of Sexual Violence in Korean Society
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Abstract
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The paper discusses the status and characteristics of sexual violence in Korean society. We present the findings we obtained through many counselling cases as well as reproducing the official statistics already published. Nowadays the sexual
violence in
our society is greatly on the sexual violence in our society is greatly on the rise. We note the following findings. First, in contrary to the common misconception, the sexual violence is committed mostly by the acquaintances. 50.8% of the
victims
aged
under 20, especially 13 or younger accounts for 28.7% of all victims. Along with young ages of the victims, another prominent characteristics of sexual violence in Korea is the enormous mental health effects and trauma upon the victims. The
sexual
violence cannot be tolerated as it is any more and there has to be strong measure against this crime through legal and institutional apparatus.
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