As frontier is collapsed and crime is globalized in the opening age, our correction has taken a large task against the big intimidation of foreign crime. Although the portion of foreign termer is below 2% of all termers, the portion is increasing by 20-40% each year.
The correctional facility is promptly taking diverse programs to improve the satisfaction in correctional treatment in order to efficiently accommodate multi-cultural termer. However, our correctional administration faces new crisis owing to the recent trend of crime such as homicide, robbery, crime of drug abuse, collective violence, fraud by phone, etc.
As foreign crime is expected to increase further in the age where population of foreigners approximate to 1.5 million, it is required to check present problem and direction of our correctional facility in improving the foreign termer''s satisfaction in correctional treatment and to suggest how to enhance satisfaction in correctional treatment in the multi-cultural age.
The issue of crime by foreigners has emerged as the number of illegal stayers increased with the legal entrance of industrial trainees in our society since 1993. It can be said that the increment of foreigners'' crime is inevitable due to the increasing number of foreigners.
The foreigners'' crime caused many problems to the persons in trial & treatment of termer with considerable influence on the criminal jurisdiction of the state. Many problems occur not only in trial but in the execution.
Such problems are derived from problems caused by cultural difference and institutional difference. Although efforts are made in the national & international level to solve these problems, such efforts are still insufficient in many aspects.
To effectively manage foreign termers & protect their human right, Korea does not legally discriminate them from natives in all areas, considering「The minimum standard rule of treatment of confinee」of UN, taking basic principle to effectively treat them equally. However, the effort of more positive policy seems necessary to foreign termers in the multi-cultural age due to the change and request of the age.
Performing questionnaire to foreign termers with this study with subject “A study on the multi-cultural termers'' satisfaction in correctional treatment”, it was found that the independent variables of satisfaction in accommodation & expectation of return to society, namely, receptivity of multi-culture, satisfaction in communication and satisfaction in multi-cultural program have significant influence.
Especially, satisfaction in multi-cultural program has higher satisfaction in correctional treatment than satisfaction in communication and receptivity of multi-culture. When it comes to legal inbound passenger & illegal stayers, the former''s satisfaction in correctional treatment is higher than that of the latter. In conclusion, this study investigated the method to make the result of improving satisfaction in accommodation and expectation of return to society by performing program to improve multi-cultural termer''s satisfaction in correctional treatment. Further, this study intends to provide basic data that helps presenting the vision of improvement of correctional treatment to multi-cultural termer by arranging law/system and preparing new program to cope with the increasing foreign termers in all correctional facilities of Korea