Alcohol blamed for domestic and sexual violence
By Kim Ji-soo
/ Korea Times file
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.