Youth Empowerment: A Criminological Approach to Crime Awareness and Prevention at North Malaysia

Abstract

The study raised awareness on cyber-crime sexual offenses and drug abuse among the youth at Polytechnic Tuanku Sultanah Bahiyah The study also assessed how much knowledge and understanding this age group had on crime prevention and victimization Globally youth are the most perpetrators of crime Malaysia included yet this is the age group that mostly lacks knowledge and understanding of what is criminal or not The study took a seminar approach to address 100 participants using lecturing open discussions teaching aids and dramatization of concepts The study used a survey method using questions constructed by the seminar presenters to assess how much knowledge the youth had on crime The study gathered that 50 of male and 20 of female participants had general information about cyber-crime in the form of cyberbullying mainly from harassment of themselves and or peers on social media platforms On drug abuse 100 of the males and 90 of females knew about drug abuse generally and 60 of the males and 50 of females knew about the long and short-term effects of drug abuse On sexual offenses 60 of males and 80 of females generally knew about sexual abuse crimes Future studies are recommended to hold such crime awareness programs in other locations for this age group in Malaysia