The purpose of this study was to activate the School Police as an effective system by understanding the current state and compensating for insufficient parts of efforts of the police to prevent the school violences. The social concern for the juvenile...
The purpose of this study was to activate the School Police as an effective system by understanding the current state and compensating for insufficient parts of efforts of the police to prevent the school violences. The social concern for the juvenile delinquency, in recent, has increased not because of the crisis consciousness on the increment of the juvenile delinquency but because of the trend following that of adult crime such as becoming lower age of offenders, recommitment, and growth of sexual harassment. Despite of those concerns, the level of peer rejection and group violence is developing its violence force even to the one causing serious damage or sexual harassment recently.
The very one phenomenon in the juvenile delinquency is the growth of those school violence. The school violence is the one of the most frequently stated in the discussion of the juvenile delinquency or their crime and now become a chronic problem contained in all of the disputes on the juvenile problem. This stimulated the Governments to propose various countermeasures in order to prevent school violence.
The School Police is intended essentially to address the violence problem occurring in school and prevent the juvenile delinquency. The problem of school violence is not only related to school but also the one resolved with efforts by overall society members. It meas that the school authorities should make systematic and active countermeasure to prevent violence in school so that the students and their parents have no worry about their school life, if the problems are not solved under educational measures. The society is also collectively responsible for those effort to prevent them.
Those perspective suggests that the problems should be addressed in cooperation among school authority, Government, parents, and non-governmental organizations. It is obvious, of course, that the primary and active efforts should be done by school authority consisted of teachers and others. In the case when those efforts fail to resolve the problems, however, the second efforts should be performed based on the external intervention. Those interventions in the second step should be planned and exercised by the external experts based on the legal and institutional devices.
If those second step has limits in solving such problems, the third step should depend on the criminal punishment inevitably. This means an intervention by legal authorities including police and prosecutory authorities. It is, of course, most desirable to solve the problems within second step, however, the execution of the third step is unavoidable unless the primary and second steps fail to solve the problems.
As seen above, The School Police should be defined as a second step to solve the problems of school violence. It is, in other words, a step plying the role of intermediate between internal solution and the one through legal authorities. If such problems are not settled despite collaborative efforts among school, teacher, and local community, this second step as an intermediate may present some solution before it is referred to criminal and legal authorities. This study intended to seek correct understanding and observation on the School Police, and based on it, to propose measure to activate and fix this system, ultimately. In the context of circle of policies as fast as change of period, the society members should recognize the importance of learning site and pay more attention to protecting it from violence and seek some effective ways to operate it.