Factors Affecting Environment-Based Crime Prevention Planning of the Community Volunteers in Thailand

Abstract

This is the study on the factors affecting environment-based crime prevention planning of the community volunteers in Thailand. The environment-based crime prevention is important but in the community of Thailand, there is still lack of importance paid by the government in planning the environment-based crime prevention. Therefore, this research should be conducted with the objective to study the factors affecting environment-based crime prevention planning of the community volunteer in Thailand. This study is the qualitative research. The population is selected by random sampling. The samples determined here include related people in the community, community volunteers, and the police station. The in-depth interviews were done to the area being awarded the Outstanding Community Relations Action Program in 2015 and being the areas with crime reduction statistics. The researcher will conduct the in-depth interviews with the sample group consisting of 10 persons of police station administrators and community administrators of each area totaling 40 people. The research results reveal that some factors affect the environment-based crime prevention planning. For the internal factors, it is found that all aspects are the factors affecting the crime prevention. For the external factors, it is found that all aspects are the factors affecting the crime prevention appropriately in reducing the occurrence of crime in the area.