矯正人員貪污成因、歷程與防制對策之研究

Exploring the Causality, Behavioral Course, and Prevention Strategies among Correctional Staff in Taiwan

雖然政府在2011年成立廉政署，並於成立後的過去幾年，公務員的貪污行為之問題得到了極大的重視與關注，但大多數研究都是針對土木工程人員和警察人員。近年來，幾起矯正人員涉貪案件，將部分違禁物品帶入監獄，並通過中間人安排收容人的親友探望收容人。這一貪污事件嚴重影響了社會大眾對矯正系統以及臺灣刑事司法系統的信心。雖然這是一個棘手的問題，但據吾人所知，目前尚未有相關研究探討臺灣矯正人員貪污行為之成因、歷程和預防策略。本研究採用深度訪談的質性研究法，邀請了6名入獄前曾經是矯正人員的受刑人進行訪談，協助本研究人員了解渠等涉及貪污行為之特性、原因與歷程。然後，本研究根據發現向矯正當局提出了一些具體防制策略供參，期能有效地防制矯正人員之貪污犯罪行為。

While the issue of corruption behavior among those public servants has been largely emphasized over the past years after the establishment of Agency Against Corruption (AAC) in 2011, most studies have been conducted on civil engineering officers and police officers. Recently, some significant scandals occurred in corrections indicating that several high-rank correctional officers have been bribed to bring some prohibited items into facilities and arrange inmates’ friends and relatives to visit inmates through middlemen. This corruption event impacts the public confidence in the correctional system, as well as the criminal justice system in Taiwan. Although this is a tough issue, to the best of our knowledge, there has been no study exploring the causality, behavioral course, and prevention strategies among correctional staff in Taiwan. Using the quantitative method of in-depth interview, six inmates who were correctional officers before incarceration have been invited as interviewees to help researchers understand the characteristics, causes, and history of corruption cases involving correctional officers in Taiwan. Then, this study proposes some specific prevention and control strategies on anticorruption to correctional administrators accordingly.