Underemployment and Unemployment: Factors to the Commission of Crime as Perceived by Selected PNP Officers and Barangay Officials

This study focused on determining the factors on how unemployment triggers and/or drives an individual to commit a crime. This study is an attempt to determine the factors of how unemployed or underemployed triggers to crime commission in a view that unemployment and continuous economic recession could influence crime in two opposite ways: that a bad economy creates a motivation/incentive to violate the law (a need for financial support) and by reducing opportunities to violate the law. This study aimed to discern the perception of the PNP and city or barangay official in this argument, also determine the negative multiplier effects and the level of loss that may be perceived of it. This study used a descriptive type of research wherein the researchers harness questionnaires to the selected officials such as police officers and barangay heads and associates and gather data through it. The researchers recommend that the government must address this issue seriously and provide alternative programs or resolutions that may help to lessen the massive unemployed individual as well as crime rates