MEDIATING CRIMINAL DISPUTES

Abstract

The present situation changes all the time in politics, economy, society and technology. It makes the social structure change quickly and causes the society to be weak, so there are more and more easily-caused crimes every day, affecting the operation of criminal judicial process and there are a lot of cases to the court of law. This results in delay of trial and wastes the budget of the nation. Such problems cause the government to find guidelines and measures to reduce quantity of causes to the courts of law. Until finally, the government launched law, including the Mediating Criminal Disputes Act, B.E. 2562, which is the law as tool for settling occurred disputes to be suspended by negotiation or mediating disputes in the level of inquiry officials. However, such law has limitation in determining the offence bases in which disputes can be mediated; it is appropriate to add up offence of burglary, Section 335, First Paragraph of the Criminal Code, so inquiry official will have more authority in issuing order, so that parties can mediate criminal dispute to suspend without bringing cases to the court of law.