Assessment of the Community Roles to deter Recidivism among the Clients: Basis for Community Awareness Program

Many people despise crime, and many victims and their families experience tremendous trauma, risk, and other detrimental consequences as a result of the offenders' actions. Correctional Pillars were formed as a result of a compassionate manner of punishing with the original purpose to improve, rehabilitate, and help them reintegrate into society with good conduct. Community-based corrections programs were developed to rehabilitate offenders without sending them to jail and reforming them together with the aid of the community, with the hope of establishing a harmonious relationship between the two. The respondents of the study are the residents of Pagbilao, Quezon. The primary respondents were the selected community members through stratified random sampling, where five respondents from each of the Twenty-Seven (27) Barangays of Pagbilao, Quezon, research setting, were chosen. The respondents are also selected based on the years they resided in the municipality/barangay so the data gathered are based on their experiences on the years they resided in the community. 10 years above of residency are one of the criteria to be considered as eligible to participate in the study. 18 years old and above are the only subjects to answer the questionnaire as they can think and they are mature enough to be involved in such a study. The results show that the community knows their different roles in community-based correction. They know that they have a responsibility as a member of the community. This study determined that the community is aware of the program itself in terms of its level of awareness of community-based correction. However, they are not fully aware of the circumstances of the program. Furthermore, the community is aware that there must be programs in which they can be involved and have jurisdiction to create good relationships between the clients. The program's goal, Awareness Drive Program, is to introduce a new concept and approach to how the community will respond and participate in preventing recidivism among clients, as well as to raise awareness about the purpose of such a program for ex-offenders and how it benefits the community, as well as the topic of the community-based approach.