The Diffusion of Western criminal law in Eastern society: Colonial criminal law diffusion -- Neo-colonial legal diffusion -- Critique of Western criminal law: an Eastern perspective: The Reform of Western criminal law in non-western society: some indications of the unsuitability of Western methods -- Western criminal law: a case of ethnocentrism and ignorance of Eastern reality -- Western criminal law: a case of fault and failure -- The Alternative: Rule-oriented and communal-oriented societies: the choice of the modes of social order -- Western criminal law for the thai social order: impediments to a communal-oriented mode of social control -- Conclusion: alternative to Western criminal law