Abstract:
This research aims to study Directions for the Thai Corrections in the Next Decade (B.E. 2546-2555) by focusing on how the four factors would influence the future Directions setting of the Thai Corrections. These factors are criminological theories on crime causations and offender treatments, institutional treatment philosophies, and problems related to prison management. Data collected in this research are 160 samples of whom presumably are knowledgeable in criminology, penology and criminal justice. Questionnires are used as a mode of collecting. Moreover, 5 experts in corrections and criminal justice are invited for an interview. After that, the data was analyzed to find percentage, frequencies means and the test for Correlations at 0.001 statistical significant. The research found that criminological theories on crime causations and offender treatments, institutional treatment philosophies, and problems related to prison management hae relations to the setting Directions for the Thai Corrections in the Next Decade as the hypothesis