Research concerning Child and Juvenile Delinquency in Thailand: Comparison with Indiana Code, the United States of America

Papontee Teeraphan

Abstract

Research is one of the responsibilities of lecturers in university. The research is reasonably used to develop a country. As a result, research is very essential to society. In the aspect of research concerning child and juvenile delinquency, including juvenile justice, Thai researchers are experiencing the hardship of the access to the information. Especially, the information regarding child and juvenile delinquents, in practice, it is likely to be hard to access. This is because the State organ which holds the information, refusing them access, will mainly focus on the protection of those welfare and future, as well as they do not want to label by letting the researchers, who have not involved the case, access that information.

Hence, the development of insights regarding child and juvenile delinquency, including juvenile justice in Thailand, is in the difficulty. Hence, this article suggests that the concerned law should be amended as the Indiana law. By this suggestion, the access of information should be in writing, consisting of the details of the research, and the safeguard to protect the information.