The purpose of this study is to examine female violent crimes in Korea. The topic of female violence has long been neglected and understudied. Because women only represent a small proportion of violent offenders, little scholarly work identifies characteristics or situations that increase women's risks for violent offending. But, female violent criminals has shown an increasing trend. For, this reason, there is a need to examine female violence. Court trial records were used to study the realities of female violent crimes. The important results from court trial records are as follows： Female violent offenders tend to have shorter criminal records than male violent offenders. The most popular reason for committing violent crime among female criminals was 'because of anger', followed by 'because of quarrel'. In 60% of female violent crimes was there a personal relationship between the victim and the offender. 50% of male violent offenders committed violence toward stranger. The actions of the victims in female violent crimes were aggressive. However, the actions of the victims were not as aggressive as those of the female violent offenders. Based on reviewing characteristics of female violent crime, it suggest several ways for effective countermeasures.

여성 폭력범죄의 특성 및 대책
  Ⅰ. 들어가는 글
  Ⅱ. 기존 논의
  Ⅲ. 연구내용 및 연구방법
  Ⅳ. 조사결과
  Ⅴ. 여성 폭력범죄에 대한 대책
  참고문헌
  ABSTRACT

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