Abstract:This lecture will deal with the practice of religious instruction in a Thai juvenile correction institution. It will describe a set of religious instructions conducted by Buddhist monks as well as by Christian pastors. A brief outline of the content and the methods of the instructions will be given. The lecture will further look at the issue of the impact of religious education on the ethical perceptions of juvenile offenders, and the problem of measuring its value in preventing further reoffending. Lecture will be based on the first-hand observations obtained during a research project conducted in 2005-2007 in Chiang Mai Juvenile Correction Institution together with a Thai law lecturer Boonchoo Na Pomphet. The results were published in Thailand (Shytov, A., Pomphet, B., (2007) Thai Juvenile Delinquency Justice and Its Perception by Minor Offenders Faculty of Law, Chiang Mai University) but did not get mass circulation. The lecture will also include fresh observations obtained during the ongoing research “Enhancing Rehabilitation in Juvenile Correction Institution: In Search for Appropriate Legal Framework”, which is currently conducted by the author in the same Thai correction institution.
Vortrag in englischer Sprache.
Vita:Alexander Shytov was born in 1970 in Russia. In 1988-1996, he studied the humanities, social studies, and law at the Stavropol Teachers Training College and the Russian Academy of Public Administration in Moscow. In 1996-2000, he studied the humanities and law in the UK (MLitt, St-Andrews, and PhD, Glasgow). In 2001-2011, he was teaching law and criminology in Chiang Mai University, Thailand, worked as a foreign expert at the Yunnan Police Academy in China, and was a visiting researcher in criminology at Glasgow University, Edinburgh University, and Regensburg University. In 2011-2015, he worked in China as a teacher of the humanities and social sciences at the Kunming International Academy, and later as a foreign expert at the Tibet University in Lhasa. Since August, 2015, he is an Assist. Professor at the Faculty of Law of Chiang Mai University, Thailand. His academic interests cover legal philosophy, education, human rights, juvenile delinquency, computer and environmental crime. He is married to a Thai scientist, Thararat Shytov, and has 4 children. He likes outdoors and learning languages.
