The present study attempted to suggest policy measures for the counseling attendance order system by examining the effectiveness of the standardized professional programs and the operating state and problems of the counseling attendance orders. This was done by integrating various methods including; literature review, empirical research, advisory consultations, and workshops. Some problems of the counseling attendance orders consist of various legal problems where several laws had overlapping content or had conflicting definitions of the content. The laws were lacking in systematic connections and had inconsistent rules in assigning attendance orders to the subjects. Therefore, in many cases, counseling attendance orders were exempted from probation and pecuniary sentences without explicit rationale.

A thorough uation of the counseling attendance program suggests that both the staff and the lecturers from the correctional institutions had positive views in the operational aspect of the program. However, the professionalism of the internal staff was not as high as expected and their opportunities for education were lacking. In addition, the counseling attendance program had satisfactory uative results, but the uation tools were not utilized as well, and there were problems concerning the subjects chosen for the education. The environment of the attendance program had high scores in the aspect of human environment, but the satisfaction for the physical environment was relatively low.

The results also showed that the external staff were particularly not treated well and the job stress of the staff was not very high overall, but due to the various roles and heavy administrative workload that the staff have to handle simultaneously, their job stress for the ‘demand of work’ was high. The results for the effectiveness of the counseling attendance program showed that the program changed the knowledge and cognitive processes of its’ subjects but did not change their behavior. The effectiveness of the alcohol treatment program was particularly low. However, the subjects uated the program to be overall effective, and the satisfaction scores for the program facilitators were the highest. The perceptions and attitudes towards the program had significant differences according to the ‘personal will to change’. On the uation of the program and the uation of the instructor, there were several differences depending on whether the lecturers were from inside the institution or outside.

Among the four programs (sexual violence, family violence, alcohol and drug), the post-program recidivism rates for the alcohol program participants were relatively high, and was followed by sexual violence. The recidivism rates for the participants were higher in cases where the attendee had a similar criminal record before participating in the program. Those who had already attended the counseling attendance program had positive responses to whether if they remembered the content of the program, and had high expectations for it to prevent recidivism. They also exhibited high scores in the area where they answered whether the contents of the lecture were actually applicable to real life. Those in their 40’s and 50’s had the highest scores in having a positive perception towards the content of the program. Participants who attended the alcohol program after the counseling attendance order, those with a low level of education, those who are divorced or separated were more likely to be susceptible to recidivism or were at risk.