Mohd Bazlan Hafidz, Mukrim
(2007)
A preliminary study of students' Universiti Sains Malaysia (Health Campus) on perception towards
deviant acts and fear of crimes environment.
Other.
PPSP, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
(Submitted)
Abstract
The current study was a preliminary study in perceptions towards deviant acts and
fear of crimes environment. It was designed to investigate and examine the perceptions
towards deviant acts, fear of crimes environment together with self-reported delinquent
activities among students in higher educational institutions. A sample of 1,006 students
was selected from the local university which is Universiti Sains Malaysia, Health
Campus, Kelantan in the 2006/2007 study session. A set of questionnaire was used to
measure the perceptions towards deviant acts according to two main subscales. The first
subscale was self-behavior perceptions towards deviant acts and the second subscales
was self-feeling perceptions towards deviant acts. This paper also examines the student's
fear of crimes environment and self-reported delinquent activities. The data were
analyzed primarily by investigating the association between all the subscales in the
present study according to the school of study amongst participants. These schools
included School of Medical Sciences (PPSP), School of Dental Sciences (PPSG), and
School of Health Sciences (PPSK). In addition, the difference between genders in all the
school of studies regarding self-behavior perceptions towards deviant acts, self-feeling
perceptions towards deviant acts, fear of crimes environment, and self-reported
delinquent activities were also examined. The results were tested using Spearman rho
and Mann-Whitney U test through SPSS/PC version 13 packages for statistical analysis.
The result indicated that there are no significant differences in two of the three schools of
study in USM, Health Campus which is PPSG and PPSK. For the PPSP students, there
are significant differences in the subscales fear of crimes environment and self-reported
delinquent activities. The result also showed significant differences between gender and delinquent activities. The current study examined the relationships between ethnic
groups and delinquent activities which are showed there is a significant difference in selfreported
delinquent activities among the ethnicity.
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