Legal Problems on the Protection of the Homeless under the Vagrant Protection Act B.E. 2557 (2014)

          In this thesis, the basic rights and governmental measures for helping and protecting the homeless. By means of the juristic method, the Vagrant Protection Act B.E. 2557 (2014), was studied and analyzed with documentary research and descriptive analysis. It was found that the homeless, vagrants and beggars in the city had been facing difficulty earning a living and could not access government aid in urban area were the main cause of migration of these people, hoping for a better lives, to the city. Further, by roaming about, they were unwillingly forced with the application of criminal sanction by the government and/or the local authority in sitting compulsive condition for them to receive support assistance in vagrant protection housing for career training that did not fit the individual. So, the homeless or vagrants whom were in such conditions would not violate the laws and orders and would be protected, the researcher suggested that the Vagrant Protection Act 2557 (2014) should be lifted or at least improved. In the case of
foreign vagrants, they should be deported.

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