• Journal of the Korean housing association
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.39-46
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• 2016

On account of the increasing crime rates annually and the consequent rising anxiety, safety has become an important topic in the aspect of environmental formation to provide decent lives to urban dwellers. As a result, great emphasis has been placed in the importance of Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED), a design method which utilizes physical environmental design to prevent crime. The definition of CPTED encompasses the technological level of crime prevention as well as comprehensive environmental design which takes into consideration fear or terror in view of human recognition and emotion. However, the current application method of CPTED in Korea is still limited to the technical supplementation of facilities, such as CCTV and streetlight, and fragmental modification like village mural paintings. Moreover, the guideline for CPTED in Korea is only a theoretical adaptation of foreign books and does not offer sufficient studies for a practical design method that will improve the life of city dwellers. The purpose of this study is to examine design methods for safe environment construction in accordance with the changing concept of CPTED by understanding the characteristic of space and analyzing the how the methods of light are expressed. This study aims to provide basic material which will serve as a guideline in creating a safe environment in the future.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.1439-1449
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• 2015

This study, based on the sociological crime theory, is to examine the relation between urban characteristics and the incidence of crime, helping establish effective crime prevention measures. For doing so, the study employs crime data from the Supreme Prosecutors' Office and socio-demographic data including the regional Statistical Yearbooks -both from 2005 to 2012- to build the study's panel data, and analyzes the panel model on the 16 subordinate districts in the city of Busan. To reduce the incidence of crime and prevent crimes from occurring based on the analysis results, first, prevention measures specific to each region by its attributes are needed rather than general ones; second, new institutional frameworks or policies are required for utilizing accurate crime data; third, interdisciplinary research in which various fields including urban engineering are associated to that of social science is necessary to further the study.

• Korean Security Journal
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• no.60
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• pp.91-111
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• 2019

Violent crimes have increased continuously due to the development of urban society and have become a threatening factor against the residential safety of citizens. The prevention of these crimes is always a major topic in human society and one of the fundamental elements of the quality of life and safety of citizens. In recent years, much attention has been paid to environmental design through the Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) as a preventive measure. Currently, South Korea is promoting the openness and utilization of public data, and crime prevention is one of the fields that can utilize public data actively. This approach to crime prevention utilizing public data will be helpful for the proposal of policies from new viewpoints departing from the general utilization measures of CPTED that improve streetlights and closed-circuit television (CCTV) installations, whose limitations have been pointed out as they are only mechanical surveillance. Thus, this study sets the research scope based on the statistics of the status of five criminal offenses by administrative district in recent years provided by the data portal in Seoul City, the capital of South Korea, as the utilization data and concentrates on the analysis. Based on the analysis results, this study proposes a method to utilize classical music as a new policy for regions where the improvements are most needed. The open-source Python analysis program was employed as the main data analysis and visualization method.

• Korean Security Journal
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• no.55
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• pp.97-116
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• 2018

Due to the rapid developments of South Korea, local communities have faced various social pathologies which generated more violent crimes and criminalized younger students. Several horrendous violences, such as a Kangneung Girl assassination assault case in July 2017 and a Busan Girls assault case in September 2017, happened only between young students. This ignited a public uproar and people were more interested in related national policies and voiced for stronger penalties in ways that punish student offenders and abolish the juvenile law. In this respect, various effective policies are needed to prevent the school violence and to eliminate the students' fear of crime. These are expected to create an environment where students could enthusiastically study in a safe environment. Focusing on elementary school students, this study seeks to empirically analyse the effects of their perception of local crime control governance on their fear of crime and, subsequently, to suggest policy implications which could prevent future school violence and juvenile crimes and reduce the students' fear of crime. The results of this study are as follows: First, the analysis of the general fear of local crime control governance and the fear of crime showed that elementary school students' trust in police officers had a significant effect on the general fear. Second, the analysis of the local fear of crime control governance and the fear of crime highlighted that their trust in the police, social ties, intimacy between the police and residents had a significant effect on the specific fear. Therefore, this study is applicable in reality in that it can contribute to the prevention of school violence and reduction of fear of crime by constructing local crime control governance.

• Journal of Distribution Science
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.47-56
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• 2018

Purpose - This study aims to not only investigate spatial pattern of immigrants' residence and crime occurrences in South Korea, but shed light on how geographic distribution of immigrants and immigrant segregation affect crime rates. Research design, data, and methodology - Th unit of analysis is Si-Gun-Gu municipal level entities of South Korea. The crime data was obtained by Korea National Police Agency and two major types(violence and property) of crime were measured. Most demographic, social, and economic variables were derived from Korean Census Data in 2015. In order to examine spatial patterns of immigrants' distribution and crime rates in South Korea, the present study utilized GIS mapping technique and Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis(ESDA) tools. The causal linkage was investigated by a series of regression models using STATA. Results - Spatial inequality between urban metropolitan vs rural areas was visualized by mapping. Assuming large Moran's I value, spatial autocorrelation appeared to be quite strong. Several neighborhood characteristics such as residential stability and economic prosperity were found to be important factors leading to crime rate change. Residential distribution and segregation for immigrants were negatively significant in the regression models. Conclusions - Unlike the traditional arguments of social disorganization theory, immigrant segregation appeared to reduce violent crime rate and the high proportion of immigrants also turned out to be a crime prevention factor.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2014.07a
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• pp.465-466
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• 2014

개발된 장치와 앱을 사용하면 시중에 나와 있는 범죄 예방 어플리케이션과는 다르게 스마트폰에서 물리적인 버튼을 사용하지 않고 사용자의 음성으로 이벤트를 발생시켜 자신의 위치정보를 미리 지정한 전화번호로 SMS를 보내고 자신의 스마트폰에서 사이렌을 자동으로 동작시킴으로서 위험한 상황에서도 편리하게 사용 할 수 있어 범죄 예방에 도움이 될 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.112-113
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• 2013

For prevention of the school violence, many researchers have been conducted the studies based on crime prevention through environment design(CPTED) in the architecture planning phase. However, besides of architecture planning, the study considering the aspect of the facility management is needed during life cycle of educational facilities. In this study, the objective is to propose the effective school facility management for violence prevention based on CPTED method during life cycle of the facilities.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Educational Facilities
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.15-25
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• 2013

This study aims to investigates the female collegian's the fear of crime in university campus. In order to deal with it, the questionnaire survey on the analysis of the female collegian's the fear of crime are conducted in 3 university campuses in Seoul. The results of the 228 questionnaires survey are analyzed in descriptive statistics through SPSS program. This study compares female collegian's the fear with male collegian's one. The result of this are the followings ; 1) The female have the bigger concerns than the male about the crime expected to happen to herself. 2) At night the female are limited in activity than male because of the fear of crime. 3) During day the female have the bigger fear of crime than the male in the space such as stairways and hallways, toilet, and elevator. 4) At night the female have the bigger fear of crime than the male in not only stairways and hallways, toilet, elevator but also pedestrian, green space, recreational space. 5) This study proved the correlation between the collegian's satisfaction about university campus safety and the collegian's satisfaction about university campus environments etc.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.14 no.3_2
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• pp.93-98
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• 2014

In a recent survey conducted among Seoul citizens, the demand for crime prevention in addition to settlement of environmental problem and traffic system improvement turned out to be the highest. In particular, the demand for prevention of crimes in residential areas was higher than any other items. The crime rates are especially high in deteriorated residential districts, which indicates the relation between crimes and physical environmental factors. In other words, proper measures for surroundings can prevent crimes. While there may be various ways to keep the residents from crimes safely, CPTED, a crime preventive method in a way of improving the physical surroundings is one of the most noteworthy solutions. The principles of CPTED involves the basic principles such as Natural Surveillance, access control, and securing of territoriality and additional principles of strengthening of Activity Support and Maintenance & Management. This study aims to present a method to lower and prevent crime occurrences by applying the principles of CPTED in deteriorated Apartment Housing in the middle of a city.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.63 no.6
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• pp.804-809
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• 2014

Recently, the prevention of crime using CCTV draws special in accordance with the higher crime incidence rate. Therefore security systems like a CCTV with audio capability are developing for giving an instant alarm. This paper proposes an analysis on screams and ambient noises for security systems with audio capability. This analysis result will be helpful for security systems to detect screams well with various ambient noises in real environment.