PARTICIPATION OF COMMUNITY IN NARCOTIC CRIME PREVENTION: A CASE STUDY OF PEOPLE IN A VILLAGE IN NAKHONPATHOM

Abstract

The purpose of this quantitative research is to examine the background, explore awareness factors in drug danger and study factors tie with community impact on participation in Narcotic Crime Prevention. Data were collected from 271 people in a village in Nakhonpathom through Simple Random Sampling.

                It was found that the background correlated with the villagers’ participation length of residence (p-value=0.002), social status (married and living together) (p-value=0.000), High school graduate or the equivalent (p-value=0.001), Master’s degree or higher (p-value=0.002), being the agriculturist (p-value=0.007) and having related to community participation in narcotic crime prevention with statistical significance 0.05. And after adding the independent variables, namely, awareness factors in drug danger and factors tie with community in the analysis, the findings yield results of social status (p-value=0.007), High School education or equivalent (p-value=0.032), completed Master’s degree or higher (p-value=0.009)  being agriculturist (p-value=0.006)1, including the awareness factors in drug danger (p-value=0.035), and the factors tie with community impact on participation in Narcotic Crime Prevention (p-value=0.000) that yielded statistical significance 0.05. Therefore,  it is apparent that the aforementioned variables could also predict the community participation in Narcotic Crime Prevention as much as 51.5 percent.