Participation of Citizen in Prevention of Crime in Maphrawkhu Community, Bang Bamru Subdistrict, Bangplad District, Bangkok

Abstract

The research titled has the objectives were to study the level of participation of citizen in prevention of crime in Maphrawkhu community, Bang Bamru Subdistrict, Bangplad District, Bangkok and to study the factors, which related to the participation of citizen in prevention of crime in Maphrawkhu community, Bang Bamru subdistrict, Bangplad district, Bangkok. The sample consisted of 242 people who are living in the Maphrawkhu community. This research is a quantitative research, which consist of 6 aspects such as self-defense from the crime, the participation of citizen in the prevention of crime in Maphrawkhu community, the participation in the consultative meeting, participation in the decision of the appropriate approach, participation in project implementation, and participation in monitoring and evaluation of the results. The data were collected by questionnaires total 624 series. The statistics used for data analysis are frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, and correlation value analysis with Pearson's correlation coefficient.

The study indicated that

1. most of them are at the medium level. The average of all aspects was at a moderate level (= 3.14, S.D = 0.75) and when considering each side, it was found that the top 3 mean values were the aspect of self-defense from the crime was at a high level (= 4.40, S.D = 0.68), the participation of citizen in the prevention of crime in community was at a high level ( = 3.04, SD = 0.83) and participation in project implementation was at a moderate level ( = 2.76, SD = 0.89)


2. to study the factors associated with participation of citizen in prevention of crime in Maphrawkhu community, Bang Bamru subdistrict, Bangplad district, Bangkok. When considering the Pearson's correlation coefficient between 6 variables found that the correlation between the variables, which had different values from zero and had a statistically significant number (p <.01), which had 15 pairs with the correlation coefficient range in the range of .219 - 1.00. When considering the correlation between the variable of the participation in the prevention of crime, all of them had a statistically significant correlation (p <.01), and the positive correlation shown that the correlation of all variables is in the same direction. The variable that has the highest correlation is the decision and monitoring (r = .877), which showed that the citizen of the Maprawkhu community had more decision and monitoring. Followed by the consultative and decision had a relatively high correlation (r = .837), which is both of them increased as well.