Rehabilitation of Juvenile Offenders Through Religious Principles: A Comparative Study between Thailand and Scotland
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This article offers the comparison between Polmont prison in the UK[1] and Chiang Mai Juvenile Correction Institution in Thailand[2]. Both institutions have been innovating to meet rehabilitative goals in educating young offenders between the ages of 16 and 24. Despite the differences between them, both Polmont and Chiang Mai establishments share common philosophical underpinnings of the institutional regime and discipline. The sociological and psychological philosophies of crime determine the treatment of juvenile offenders.
Both institutions promote intellectual and professional training. There is a difference, however, in the way religion is used as the means of rehabilitation. Polmont leaves religion to the private choice of prisoners. Chiang Mai attempts to integrate, although insufficiently, Buddhist education as an important part of rehabilitation. The approach of a great British educational reformer, Thomas Arnold, to religion and morality is used to point out the failures of both institutions to accomplish a moral change in the life of young offenders.
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