공식범죄통계상 살인범죄추세와 실제 살인범죄추세의 괴리 가능성에 관한 연구 = What is Real Trends of Murder Crime Rates in Korea?

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Even criminologists who suspects seriously the validity of official crime statistics generally tend to accept relative accuracy of official murder crime rate statistics(In Korea, it``s not Homicide Statistics), probably because they believe that there are few hidden crimes in case of murder crime. But, this paper tried to show the probability that even official murder crime rates so far have not reflected on much -maybe much more than Korean criminologists estimate- hidden crimes according to the condition of crime detect ability, and so there are -not small- discrepancy between official murder crime statistics and real murder crime. Further, improvements in murder crime detect ability in Korea for decades or more might have distorted the direction of murder crime rate trends. This paper presented several evidence about it. If it is true that official murder crime rates -which is generally regarded as crime having the least hidden crime- have showed distorted direction of trend for decades or more in Korea, the seriousness of distortion of other crimes would have been much more during the same periods.