Kim Ji-soo joined The Korea Times in 2006, and worked on such desks as culture and politics and is currently a member of the Editorial Board. Previous workplaces include The Korea Herald and the Korea JoongAng Daily.
Alcohol blamed for domestic and sexual violence
/ Korea Times file
By Kim Ji-soo
Seven out of 10 domestic and sexual violence offenders were drunk when they committed their crimes, Uijeongbu police in Gyeonggi Province disclosed Sunday.
The findings were in a report by Lee Won-jeong, a director of a criminal division at Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency, who studied 3,747 cases of violence-related crimes in Uijeongbu last year. It showed a total of 4,851 people were arrested for violent crimes in the area and 61.5 percent, or 2,983, of them were drunk.
For sexual and domestic violence offenders, seven out of 10 were drunk at the time of their crimes. And for those who obstructed police, the figure was nine out of 10.