IMPACT OF CRIME PREVENTION PROGRAMS TO THE RATES OF CRIME INCIDENCE IN A BARANGAY IN LUCENA CITY

Various social problems and concerns are faced by our contemporary society. One of these problems is criminality. Law enforcement agencies have formulated crime prevention programs to deal with this social problem. Crime prevention is any initiative or policy that reduces or eliminates the aggregate level of victimization or the risk of individual criminal participation. It includes government and community-based programs to reduce the incidents of risk factors correlated with criminal participation, the rate of victimization as well and efforts to reduce perceptions or fear of crime. This research study was about the “Impact of Crime Prevention Programs on the Rates of Crime Incidence in a Barangay in Lucena City”. The respondents were 50 persons who lived at Brgy. Mayao Parada in Lucena City, Quezon. The descriptive method with the application of a survey was utilized in this study and non-random sampling was used in the study. A self-structured questionnaire was prepared to seek answers to the researchers’ problems. This study dealt with the effectiveness of crime prevention programs in the City of Lucena, Quezon in the Philippines. The methods that were used to process the data were frequency, percentage, and weighted mean methods. The researcher utilized a self-structure questionnaire to identify the basic data. The existing crime prevention programs to the rates incidence in a barangay of Lucena City that earned WAM 3.54 or interpreted as Strongly Agree. The effect of existing crime prevention programs on the rates of incidence in a barangay earned WAM 3.43 interpreted as Strongly Agree. The level of perception of the respondents towards the impacts of crime prevention programs on the rates of incidence in a barangay earned WAM 3.42 and was also interpreted as Strongly Agree. The researcher proved that there is an impact on the crime prevention program the selected barangay implemented.