"The first sentence was convicted of an office worker accused of secretly photographing a women's toilet ... The court was accused of invading the toilet in the cinema and shooting with a camera, and the defendant was sentenced to one year in prison (32, Officer) was sentenced to a fine of 2 million won by applying criminal charges for intrusion of buildings and intrusion.

This article appeared on page 31 of the Maeil Economic Daily on June 10, 1998. The reporter wrote, "This is the first example of a guilty acknowledgment of filming." It was a time when it was not 'illegal' because there was no applicable law. On December 28 of that year, Article 14 (2) (Photographing using cameras, etc.) was newly established in the Act on the Punishment of Sexual Violence Crimes and the Protection of Victims.

Since then, for over 20 years, illegal shooting (camera and other shooting) crimes have increased in proportion to account for 20% of all sexual assault crimes. In 2018, six large-scale protests insisted on the investigation of illegal shooting were held, and around that time, the government issued digital anti-crime measures and eradication statements. The 'Webhard Cartel' incident spreading and sharing illegal photographs broke out, and there were incidents of illegal shooting and distribution and sexual assault by entertainers such as singer Jung Jun-young. In addition, sexual crimes beyond imagination were exposed, such as the so-called 'n-room' led by Gatgat, Dr. and Watchman. The government again announced measures against digital sexual crime.

Is the problem that has been accumulated in the meantime the process of exploding now, or is it time for a more fundamental change?

The SBS Data Journalism Team [Apocalypse] analyzed the crime of illegal shooting again following last year. The awareness of digital sex crimes has been higher than ever before and the publicity has been gathered because we wanted to see how our court rulings have changed. The main subject of analysis is 413 cases of illegitimate trials in illegitimate court cases sentenced by five courts in Seoul in 2019 (419 defendants).

** I analyzed this way! **

● Nine out of ten illegal

shooters went home, and his first crime was in May 2012. He was hiding in the women's bathroom at about 9:00 p.m. and watched a woman in the sideroom watching her toilet video. The last offense was sneaked on a woman who had been toileting in the women's bathroom around 5 am on April 22, 2018, six years later. Only 139 crimes in the public indictment were illegally shot for 2,000 days.
He was suspended for prosecution for the same crime in 2015. It was a disposition received during the offense in the ruling. The sentence sentenced by the court to the accused who did not stop committing the crime despite the prosecution was sentenced to one year in prison and two years in probation. The main reason for the reduction was that they were deeply reflecting on the error and that the filmed images were not distributed elsewhere.

As a result of the analysis of the wreckage, in 2019, in the case of illegal shooting, the sentence of execution of the prison sentence was the highest. It accounted for 49.2% and half of all judgments. The next was a fine of 36.8%. The imprisonment type was 12.2%. 87.8% combined with the rest except the actual sentence. This means that about 9 out of 10 people who were judged for illegal shooting will return home after the trial.

The average sentence was 13.3 months in prison (1 year and 1 month), and the fine was 4.35 million won. The probation was on average 8.7 months in prison and 24.9 months in probation.

● 2% p progress!

Is it better or worse than before? Penalty was the highest when Mabuja's analysis of 2018's rulings was based on the same criteria. 46.8%, approaching half. The following were probationary sentences for prison sentences of 40.7% and actual sentences of 10.0%. Compared to the 2019 analysis, the number of imprisonment increased as the fines were reduced, which was mostly a probation. Among them, the share of the actual type increased by 2.2% p.
The Korean Women's Lawyers Association and the Korea Institute for Women's Policy collected and analyzed 2011 and 2016 and 2017 cases of illegal shooting cases. Compared with the analysis of the paroxysmal measures, the proportion of the actual sentence, which was only 5%, increased to 10%, and the fine, which reached 72.0%, was reduced to half. The probation of prison sentences also increased from 15% to 49.2%. As such, it can be said that Korean society, especially the court, has taken the illegal shooting heavily.

● 5,881 arrests for illegal shooting in 2019. As

mentioned at the outset of 18.4% of all sexual crimes, it was in December 1998 that the law for punishing illegal shooting was first created. A 32-year-old office worker reported in the newspaper as a case of 'first guilt' before the law was enacted. The officially counted illegal shooters have exploded with the popularization of smartphones.
Illegal photo shooters, who were 2,000 in 2012, approached 5,000 in 2013, and since then, they have kept around 6,000 people. The proportion of illegal filming in sexual assault crimes also exceeded the 20% level in 2014, down slightly from 2019 to 18.4%. Although the trend is decreasing, there is a slow feeling compared to the recent years of interest in sexual crimes including illegal shooting. Why is that?

● 3 out of 4 people commit crimes again ... 75% offense

One explanation is that illegal shooting is particularly high. In other words, once committed, they often commit the same crime again. According to the Ministry of Justice's White Paper on Sexual Crime in 2020, the highest rate of recidivism was among the sexual assault crimes, reaching 75.0%. It means that 3 out of 4 people commit crimes again. The next highest was 70.3%, followed by 48.2% for obscene use of communication media, 38.2% for prostitution, and 32.3% for sexual assault.

In the 2019 analysis of the Mabujakjajaki, there were 82 suspected suspects of illegal shooting. The sentences sentenced to them were 27 prison sentences (32.9%), 39 probation (47.6%), and 16 fines (19.5%). The average prison sentence is 13 months (1 year and 1 month), and a fine of 4.84 million won, which is similar to the average sentence. Compared to the distribution of the entire sentence, the fine weight is low and the actual weight is high, but it does not appear to be high enough to prevent Jaebum.

● The reason for the sentence reduction of 86% of the defendants

is another reason for weighting and reduction reflected in the sentence. When the judge decides the sentence of the defendant, there is a weighting reason for increasing liability and a reason for reducing the liability.
In the reason for the reduction, which was reflected in the illegal filming rulings in 2019, "wrong reflection or recognition of crime" was the most common. The respondents were 333 (79.5%). He accused the accused of committing the wrongdoing and said that he was reflecting on the wrong. The following was mentioned in the judgment of 282 (67.3%) of "no criminal record related to illegal shooting". "Agreement with victims" followed by 105 (49.3%).

There were 256 cases (61.1%) reflecting the top two reasons for reduction, and 76 cases (18.1%) reflecting the top three. Only 58 (13.8%) had no reason for reduction. Excluding these, 361 (86.2%), or about 9 out of 10 illegal shooters, were sentenced to death for any reason.

On the other hand, among the weighted reasons, the most common was "not guilty" and was mentioned in 253 (60.4%) rulings. "The victim's pain was severe or the shock was severe" was 110 (26.3%), and 82 (19.6%) had a criminal record. The top two weighted reasons were reflected in 95 (22.7%), and the top three reflected in 15 (3.6%). Conversely, 113 people (27.0%) had no reason for weighting. One out of four people said that the older brother was only shaved but not weighted.



Analyzing the ruling on the illegal shooting of "I've made an incredible reduction in digital sex crimes" tended to reflect the reason for the reduction rather than the weighted reason. This is also because there are no sentencing standards for digital sex crimes, including illegal shooting. Since the standards of sentencing for other sexual assault crimes are applied and applied, it does not properly reflect the characteristics of illegal shooting crimes. This is not different from the 2018 analysis.

Seung-Jin Yoo, director of the Korea Cyber ​​Sexual Response Center, said, "If it had been punished by the assailants, it would not have increased the scale of digital sex crimes. "It has been reduced." "The illegal shooting must take serious punishment in consideration of the risk of causing irreparable damage through online distribution," said Yu. said.

Coverage : Shim Young-gu Design : Joon-Seok An Intern : Lee Yoo- min, Lee Seung-woo