소년보호제도의 최근 동향 및 발전방안 -법무부 소년보호기관을 중심으로- = The Recent Movement and Developmental Directions of the Juvenile Protection System -Based on Juvenile Protection Institutions of Ministry of Justice-

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Juvenile crime is the main issue of social problem as serious as adult one. Our society conducts a great efforts for the juveniles`` guiding and delinquency protection. The 「Juvenile Law」and 「Juvenile Protection and Treatment Act」were revised on the 21st of December, 2007 and all the revised Act and Law went into effect on the 22nd of June 22, 2008. It is worth considering the management status of juvenile protection institutions doing reformative education of juvenile offenders and enforcing delinquency prevention education of juvenile delinquents, and meaningfully think the aspects of the establishment of juvenile justice system and the developmental policy direction via policy propelling status and performance analysis. This study introduces the role, the recent management performance and the major promoting task of juvenile protection institutions of Ministry of Justice related with the country``s juvenile protection system. And then it helped the understanding on the juvenile protection system by suggesting the prerequisite tasks of the juvenile protection institutions as leading institutions for the juvenile delinquents, and investigated the policy direction for realizing of the advanced juvenile justice system.