Guidelines to Develop the Criminal Justice System in Thailand

Abstract

This article purposes to seek the guidelines to develop Thai criminal justice system which requires to serve a justice based on citizen’s expectation on its fairness, efficiency, and accessibility. The great criminal justice system must be consistent with the rights and liberty protection of citizens, anti-discrimination, and independent from whether inside or outside of its related organisations. Also, the swiftness, transparency, international standard, and modernization must be pondered to apply into the system.

To develop the criminal justice system in Thailand, the system should employ the proper guidelines for its development such as organising database system for certain circumstances, applying theories relating to criminal justice system into practices appropriately, cultivating desires morality and ethics considering the principles of good governance, improving legal studies as the disciplines to resolve social problems and to ground a foundation of criminal justice system for law students, encouraging appropriate welfare system and payment for officials, preventing government interference which benefits to individuals for achieving a justice and morale and literally results a great service serving to access a justice, and maintaining appropriate environment of Thai criminal justice system.