PREVALENCE OF JUVENILE OFFENDERS IN LUCENA CITY DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

This paper focused on prevalence of juvenile offenders during the pandemic in order to come up with a proposed newly improved tips and implementation for the better knowledge and awareness of the juveniles as well as the respondents for the welfare of Lucena City and hoping that it may also help other areas. This paper aimed to identify the factors that caused the juveniles to offend the law and what methods were used to aid the problem. The researchers employed a descriptive design using stratified sampling technique in the selected areas of Lucena City. Through this, the results were strongly agreed by the respondents in terms of the juvenile offending crimes such as theft, drug commitment, unnecessary travels and etc. As per the PNP Personnel regarding the problems encountered in addressing juvenile offending, the researchers proposed to recommend a seminar or counselling as well to the PNP Personnel to heighten their knowledge in addressing the issues or handling the juvenile offenders.