• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.774-784
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• 2011

The purpose of this study, which was conducted as a part of investigations for vitalizing the School Sheriff system proposed as a means to prevent school violence and promote school safety, was to survey recognition of elementary school parents toward the School Sheriff system and present an improvement scheme for the system. For the study, we selected as the research object a set of parents whose children attended schools with School Sheriffs and then sampled 200 parents out of them with cluster random sampling, before analyzing 189 finally. Validity of the questionnaire is verified by expert council and factorial analysis, and reliability by reliability analysis. Statistical means including chi-square test, t-test and F-test are used. The result of the study as follows : First, necessity of the School Sheriff system varies by individual characteristics. Second, recognition toward the system itself varies by individual characteristics. Third, recognition toward the role that should be played by School Sheriffs varies by individual characteristics. Fourth, there is a difference in perceiving the role and activity of School Sheriffs, Fifth, whether the system helped improving school safety varies by individual characteristics. Sixth, the satisfaction from the School Sheriffs.

• Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.9-22
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• 2015

School is the place where teenagers spend most of their time, forming friendships and receiving guidance from the teachers. Their life in school is a procedure of learning lessons before advancing into the society. However, in this place of learning, misdeeds such as violence, extortion and bullying are actually happening, some of which developing into suicide, murder and prostitution. For this reason, violence in school, especially, raises concerns as a serious social problem these days. Therefore, this study suggests more practical improvement programs to solve the problem of the violence in school, by first investigating the concept and the actual situation of school violence, and by better understanding the problems resulted from the school violence. The researchers of the study suggest as follows: First is about strengthening the education that builds students' personality, where we investigate the methods of personality education that suit with the current situation and suggest what is necessary to improve them. The second is about expansion of the functioning of families and of the educational role of the household heads, where we argue the importance of education in the family in addition to the education in school, and we suggest the right way for the parents to discipline their children. The third is about expansion of counseling professionals and improving social environment, where we explain the importance of counseling professionals in preventing and solving the issues in school violence and suggest expansion of these professionals and also suggest installation and operation of dedicated counseling room in schools. The fourth is about use of school sheriffs, where we suggest dispatching school sheriffs nationwide and fully use them as a countermeasure against school violence.

• Korean Security Journal
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• no.60
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• pp.175-196
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to examine the role of safety sheriffs and their necessity in order to improve the activation of safety sheriff's professionalism. Seven security sheriffs were finally selected to discuss their activities and discuss ways to improve their effectiveness. We conducted semi - structured interviews and conducted in - depth interviews with limited data and inadequate prior research. The results of this study are as follows. First, the government should get the help of citizens, citizens and residents. If the state wishes to reduce the number of safety accidents and bring positive results to the public, it should not rely solely on the utilization of institutions. Second, in order to be a safe sheriff with a positive response from the local residents, the activities of the sheriff's sheriff are not only aimed at preventing risks in the environmental domain and reducing the number of accidents, Publicity should be provided to the landlord, tenant, and residents to inform them that the activity is preventive of accident prevention. Third, under the current law, it is necessary to disclose public facilities such as roads, airports, and harbors to the private sector in order to make it possible to monitor school facilities and youth training facilities. Fourth, the safety sheriff is expected to put forward the expectations and positive results of prevention through the beginning of the inspection activities, and the role of the Korean people in becoming psychological stable and efforts to be born as safety experts are required. Finally, it is necessary to establish a concrete manual, strategic safety inspection plan.