Challenges of Legal Welfare for the Prevention of Economic Exploitation of Persons with Developmental Disabilities and the Recovery of Damage

From labor exploitation for people with developmental disabilities to mobile phone opening fraud targeting people with developmental disabilities, we often face cases of economic exploitation damage to people with developmental disabilities in our daily lives. Since such economic exploitation of people with developmental disabilities can act as an obstacle to the progress of economic activities and eventually lead to social integration of people with developmental disabilities, special efforts of the community to solve the problem are required. In order to suggest a better direction to prevent economic exploitation and recover damage, discussions are needed to analyze problem types and seek alternatives from a legal perspective. Therefore, this study examines the current status of economic exploitation and damage response for people with developmental disabilities (Chapter II), systematically analyzes the cases of mobile phone opening fraud as a representative type of economic exploitation, and attempts to understand the legal system by establishing a new classification model for effective response system (Chapter III). Next, while diagnosing problems by type of damage based on the experiences of the parties, we will discuss problems from the perspective of legal welfare and directions for legal improvement (Chapter IV). Through this, the tasks of legal welfare will be comprehensively presented to prevent the occurrence of economic exploitation and recover damage for people with developmental disabilities (Chapter V). In order to guarantee the right of people with developmental disabilities to be free from economic exploitation, it is expected that more fundamental and comprehensive legal and policy improvements can be designed and implemented from the perspective of legal welfare in the future by using this study as a stepping stone on the necessity of preparing a victim-centered relief system by paying attention to the victim's experience.