한국형사정책학회 창립 전후 -회고와 전망 = Celebration for 30th Anniversary of Korean Association of Criminology : Korean Association of Criminology, its thirty years` history

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Korean Association of Criminology[KAC] was founded in 1985. Prof. Lee Soo Sung, Seoul National University, initiated its founding, and led it for first four years as its president. In order to advance interdisciplinary studies, he gathered academic scholars who were professionally trained from sociology, psychology, and criminal law. Legal practitioners on criminal justice became another partners as KAC members. From the initial period, KAC was a melting ground for multiple fields academics and for theoretical-practical professionals. Since 1986, Korean Journal of Criminology[KJC] was published on the annual basis, and is now advanced to be published three times annually. Various topics were covered at KJC. Sometimes, ex-offenders who were imprisoned for long-term period were invited, and made a presentation on their actual experience inside the wall. Now, KJC is proud of one of the highest impact factor journals among law field. In the near fututre, KAC is expected to be center for critical debates and really interdisciplinary studies. KAC’s founding statement in 1985 says; Science and human rights should be the two pillar for criminology and criminal justice. Policy without science tends to be blind and convenient, and the policy without human rights takes people as a object of oppressive control. Such a statement is of course valid in the present time.