Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the short-term effect of attendance order for sex offender and domestic assailant by analyzing their re-offending rate after attendance order. The targets were 380 sex offenders and 110 domestic assailants who fulfilled each attendance order sentenced by court in 2010(treatment group) and 196 sex offenders and 110 domestic assailants who were imposed probation and/or community service order without attendance order(comparison group). Survival test was performed after the homogeneity on age, education and number of crimes of sexual or domestic assaults between the treatment group and the comparison group was proved. The recidivism rate of sex crimes did not show significant difference between the treatment group and the comparison group. The re-offense rate of the treatment group was significantly lower than the comparison group for both the sexual offense and domestic assault. The survival function also revealed significant difference between the test groups. The recidivism rate of family assailants did not show significant difference between the treatment group and the comparison group. However, the number of re-offenses showed significant difference between the two groups. The survival function also revealed significant difference between the test groups. The implication of these results was discussed and the direction for future studies to improve the attendance order was suggested.