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초록

According to the current article 297 of the Criminal Law, it rules that any person who causes another person to engage in a sexual act by using force or threat shall be imprisoned for 3 years or more than that under this article". The idea called rape is defined as committing adultery using force or threat against women. And also the legal definition of adultery is a sexual intercourse by man and woman who have not marital relations. Therefore, there arouses problem when these legal terms are applied to such cases as marital rape, homosexual rape and transgender rape. In order to resolve this problem, instead of rape, a newly revised name of this crime type so called "sexual assault" was proposed. In addition, it was examined to replace rape as a current necessary condition with the sexual act against the other person without permission. Finally,new amendment of this article of the Criminal Law was suggested. The terms of sexual assault has already been recognized and used practically in a society, so that there is no reason to adhere to using the term of rape which is value immanent and causes confusion in case of legal interpretation.

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