‘민간경비’ 용어의 수정 필요성에 관한 고찰

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Private security in South Korea has been growing remarkably during the last 30 years. The researches on private security in South Korea have also developed in terms of quantity and quality, which renders positive and constructive impression. It is problematic to use the term ‘private security’ only for convenience without examining the accuracy and propriety of the term. Private security presupposes to give security services exclusively to those who pay the fee because of its for-profit nature. Using the term ‘civilian’ rather than ‘private’, however, could cause to classify the non-profit organization’s activity for crime prevention into the realm of private security. Using the term ‘guarding’ rather than ‘security’, in addition, may also cause to exclude private investigation, industrial security, knowledge-information security, security consulting which are the core functions of private security from the realm of private security. Even the widest concept of guarding cannot involve and explain these functions. Thus it is necessary to make correction of the term ‘private security’ accurately. It should reflect the essential nature of private security and also be widely used in the security industry, as the privatization of criminal justice is more proper terminology than the civilianization of criminal justice and private prison is more proper than the civilian prison. The term ‘security’ has widely been used recently in security-related field such as industrial security, cyber security and information security. It is hardly to believe to use the term 'guarding' in the rapidly changing circumstances of security industry, since the term 'guarding' implies the old fashion and even analog image which could eventually distort the fundamental concepts and functions of private security and reduce its boundary. The correction of the terminology of private security, therefore, should be made as soon as possible in order to establish the academic identity of private security and accelerate the development of private security.

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