Punishment for Children and Youth Against Social Inequality
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This academic article aims to analyze legal principles on measures and penalties for juvenile to be appropriate to the social context and the law of Thailand by using the concept of social learning theory, imitation theory and behavior in the offence of juvenile. In addition, the United Kingdom and French Republic’s juvenile offense measure and penalties will be used as framework for this analysis.
The results showed that nowadays, juvenile offenses are becoming more violent and more serious. Children and juveniles also have more imitation behavior of offense from social media and surrounding society these have huge impact to the society. Regarding the criminal law has provisions the determination of measures or penalties for the juvenile offender still does not correspond to the problems in today’s society. From the comparison of laws regarding criminal liability in case of juvenile delinquency in Thailand, England and France found that the Thai criminal law on measures or penalties for juvenile offenders needs to be changed to appropriate each individual person by using the concept of fines to be paid as a ratio based on the status and income of the juvenile offender’s family or calculated from the annual income tax of that family in order to avoid social inequality.
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