1. Research background and objectives

The residents’ opposition to siting correctional facilities, probation and parole facilities (P&P facilities) have been around for a long time. However, the possibility of crime in society always exists and cannot be ruled out altogether. Therefore, we should prevent and suppress crimes and strengthen social safety with the help of correctional facilities and P&P facilities.
The correctional facilities and P&P facilities are non-preferred facilities that residents are reluctant to establish nearby their homes, even though they are nationally necessary facilities. As a result, social costs are increasing due to serious siting conflicts during policy implementation.
Because of this serious NIMBY syndrome, this research was conducted in order to provide policy implications for the preventive conflict managements of siting correctional facilities, probation and parole facilities (P&P facilities).

2. Research subjects and research methods

We did literature review, domestic and international cases studies, a residents’ perception survey, and expert and public official interviews on the siting conflicts on correctional and P&P facilities. For controlling the various characteristics of the siting conflicts, we only analyzed the facilities for adults: prison and jail (correctional facilities), probation and parole facilities.

3. Major Results

We analyzed siting conflict cases of the Seoul Southern Correctional Facility (2011), Yeoju P&P Facility (2013), and the Seoul Eastern Correctional Facility and P&P Facility (2017) which were relocated to Munjeong Legal Town together. The following suggestions have been drawn:
- The most important thing is active cooperation and efforts by the Ministry of Justice and local governments to resolve siting conflicts.
- The discussion and negotiation among the key stakeholders including the Ministry of Justice, local governments and related residents is needed in order to achieve what they want.
- Also securing budgets is important, so that the relocation & construction projects of the facility could be carried out quickly without delay after agreements between the key stakeholders is made.

A perception survey of 1,000 residents in Seoul was conducted from October 1 to October 16, 2018. The results show that people agreed that the facilities are essential for the crime prevention, but the majority disagreed if the facilities are siting in their residence. With these results, we could confirm that they are non-preferred facilities with NIMBY syndrome. And among a lot of factors, the immediate experiences about the facilities like visiting the facilities, using the resident convenient facilities for health care, parking sites etc. do lower the opposition on siting the facilities.

4. Suggestions for the policy improvements

In order to site the facilities more effectively, we made some suggestions: improve the legal systems like legislation of the conflict management act, siting conflicts management, and people’s perception of the facilities.