The Effect of School CCTVs on Prevention of the School Bullying in the Daejeon Metropolitan City

Abstract

The debates on the effect of school CCTVs on prevention of the school bullying are controversial. The purpose of this study is to look into the effects of school CCTV on prevention of the school bullying in the Daejeon Metropolitan City using multiple regression analysis and suggest the policy implications for the improvement of the school CCTV. First of all, this study focused on the preceding literature reviews dealing with the Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design(CPTED). Second, it searched for the school CCTV installation status by autonomous districts and school levels in the Daejeon Metropolitan City. Third, it also performed the multiple regression analysis to investigate the effects of school CCTV on prevention of the school bullying. The result meant that the enlargement of school CCTVs in the Daejeon Metropolitan City were ineffective with the decrease in the school bullying. It suggests that both the quantitative increase in the school CCTV and the interactions between teachers and students should be combined on the base of defensible mechanisms such as the machine surveillance through the CCTV.