The Buddhadhamma Integration For Prevention of Repeated Offenses of Inmates in Lamphun Prisons

Abstract

The purposes of this article were 1) to investigate the conditions of repeated
offending of jail inmates in Lamphun Provincial Prison, 2) to find out the ways of
repeated offending of jail inmates in Lamphun Provincial Prison, and 3) to examine the
guidelines for integrating Buddhamma principle for repeated offending of jail inmates
in Lamphun Provincial Prison. This research was a qualitative research in the area of
Lamphun Provincial Prisons in collecting data and the instruments was an interview
from 17 prisoners and content analysis.
The findings indicate that 1) the preventing condition of repeated offending of
jail inmates in Lamphun Provincial Prison found that the control and correction of
behavior of jail inmates through working with provincial employment, educational
institution, vocational training center, Department of Administrative Affairs, police
officers, office of probation, local government organization and Lamphun Sangha, 2)
the ways of repeated offending of jail inmates in Lamphun Provincial Prison found that
employment and vocational training, monitoring system and a study of problems,
creating family’s understanding, mind training according Buddhist principles,
opportunity to participate in various activities and organizing activities to change habits
and knowledge, and 3) the guidelines for integrative Buddhamma for repeated
offending of jail inmates in Lamphun Provincial Prison found that the four noble truths
was the principle of factor analysis for repeated offending affecting oneself and others
(Dukkha), a causal analysis of behavior for repeated offending (Samudaya), the goal
analysis of prison for reducing who had committed repeated offending as much as
possible (Nirodha), and the guidelines analysis of repeated offending prevention of jail
inmates through a behavioral adjustment program from initiation to process of
supervised release (Magga).