Security in the Criminal Justice System: A Case of Criminal Record Deletion
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The academic article aimed at bringing security into the criminal justice system should be explicitly legislated to protect human rights, including groups of people who have been recorded. Case: people are alleged offenders, suspended sentence offenders, prisoners who were purged depending on the act, and juvenile delinquents. Because the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand B.E. 2017 postulates a warranty for protecting human rights in the criminal justice system, One of the most important is the right to protection for offenders. Nowadays, Thailand only regulates offenders, data collection, and sorting data from a directory or criminal records database. Deletion or concealment is not included in the regulation mentioned earlier. This means that these kinds of people still have data in the criminal records database of the Royal Thai Police. Having a criminal record makes society stigmatize them as bad guys, and it also has some negative attitudes. This has an impact on a lack of education opportunities, career paths, or living a happy life in society.
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