청소년성보호법:After Mandatory Referral Preventing Displaced Attrition In Child And Adolescent Sexual-Offence Cases

South Korea’s new mandatory-referral rule ensures that child and adolescent sexual-offence cases reach prosecutorial review but referral is not enforcement. This brief proposes a framework to detect whether attrition is actually reduced or merely displaced downstream through non-indictment, repeated police-prosecution transfers and longer processing times.