Factors Affecting to be a very bad class prisoners and The rehabilitation approach

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to study  the demographic characteristic of the prisoners who are a very bad class prisoner. Also, this study is to analyze the factors in affecting a very bad class prisoner. This includes the study of the rehabilitation approach for a very bad class prisoner. The study is used by the mixed method with quantitative and qualitative research. Quantitative study analyzes the secondary Data from the data base of the Strategy and Division, Department of Corrections. With the qualitative study, the study is separated to be the In – depth interview by the case study and the focus group of the correctional officers in the 3 prisons. These prisons consist of Central Correctional Institution for Drug Addict, Bangkwang Central Prison, and Klong Prem Central Prison.  The study results found that there are 3 types of a very bad class prisoner 1) the reoffending prisoners from 3 times or more, 2) reducing class of prisoner from contrabands smuggling and violating the prison disciplines and 3) offences according to the Ministry of Justice announcements which has announced by the Royal Thai Government Gazette announcement on 1^st May, 2020, especially the violent and serious cases which are interesting among people. According to the data based of people and cases from the strategy and plan division, this study found that there are 7,899 very bad class prisoners in the correctional system (Source: January, 2020). The statistical data of the very bad class prisoner characteristics is classified by gender, type of offence, age, educational level, and occupation. The study found that most very bad class prisoners are male. According to the types of offences, the study found that most very bad class prisoners are reoffending prisoners more than 3 times. With their education background, the study found that most prisoners graduated the primary school level. They have unstable occupations such as general employment. Also, most prisoners commit crimes at young age. They also have associated with vices and being expelled from school. They also have Antisocial  behaviors. This leads them to become a very bad class of prisoners. However, the focus group of the correctional officers presented that this group of prisoners is still able to change their behaviors, but it may have to take a long time and design a specific program for the very bad class prisoners which different from other inmates.