A Study of the Roles and Potentials of the Community Justice Center in Solving Public Problems

Abstract

The objectives of this research are to study the roles and potentials of the Community Justice Center, study the problems and obstacles of the Community Justice Center, and study the approaches or forms of operation of the Community Justice Center under the missions of Ministry of Justice to be more efficient. It is the research integrating between the qualitative and quantitative researches. The target group of the qualitative research using the in-depth interview consists of 43 members of Committee of the Community Justice Center in Thailand by random sampling. The target group of focus group consists of members of Committee of the Community Justice Center, people using the services, network and people by random sampling. The quantitative research is conducted by collecting the questionnaires. The target group consists of 444 members of Committee of the Community Justice Center by quota random. For the 3 methods, the target group in the Community Justice Center has the potential in the A and D grades. The research tools are the in-depth interview, focus group, and questionnaires. The data is analyzed on the contents and descriptive statistics including the frequency, number, percentage, and standard deviation. It is found that 1. The roles and potentials of the Community Justice Center under the missions of Ministry of Justice having the potentials in the A and D grades is entirely driven and has the operation on the 6 aspects of missions of Ministry of Justice. Besides, when analyzing for the whole country, it is found that the roles and potentials of the Community Justice Center under the 6 aspects of missions of Ministry of Justice are in the high level. 2. The problems and obstacles of the Community Justice Center in the operation following the missions of Ministry of Justice are in the budgets, structure of Committee, laws and regulations, lack of knowledge and understanding, location/area, remuneration, incentives, integration, cooperation, and rotation of the officials. There are also other problems and obstacles, for example, public awareness, access to the service uses including the reliability of people on the Community Justice Center. 3. The approaches or forms of operation of the Community Justice Center under the missions of Ministry of Justice can be improved with more efficiency requiring the appropriate location of Community Justice Center, structural pattern, Committee of Community Justice Center, committee, legislation of law and related regulations, allocation of budgets, compensations, and allowances. This will make the Community Justice Center more efficient.