CLASS 2024 SECTION 6 GROUP 3

A. TOPIC:
Crime Mapping, Crime Prevention Strategies

B. TITLE:
Use of Crime Mapping in Crime Prevention Strategies in Amadeo, Cavite:
Basis for Policy Review

C. BACKGROUND:
Mapmaking has greatly impacted how social scientists, government
officials, and the general public perceive crime. For well over a century,
criminologists, sociologists, and urban scholars have used crime maps to
explain and forecast urban crime patterns. In government, they are used to
develop crime control policies by elected officials and police departments.
The general public uses crime maps for various purposes, including
assessing the government's performance and navigating their daily lives.
Crime maps have been used in the social sciences to better understand the
causes of crime. Despite this steadily growing influence, human
geography has remained relatively marginalized in discussions about
crime mapping.

Maps show varying distributions of crime. It clusters in some places and is

missing in others. In their everyday lives, people employ this information.
Some locations are avoided, while others are sought in some places and
are missing in others. In their everyday lives, people employ this
information. Some locations are avoided, while others are sought.
Understanding that their risks of being victims are higher in some of these
locations than in others influences how they choose their neighborhoods,
schools, businesses, roadways, and places to go for amusement. In certain
locations, individuals safeguard their valuables and lock their automobiles.
They do not in certain locations. People may be seen moving quickly
down certain streets and looking suspiciously at oncoming strangers. They
leisurely amble down other streets, welcoming any potentially fascinating
encounters and observing others who are also choosing to stay put in the
same places

Crime prevention is best understood and applied as a distinct social and

environmental strategy for reducing crime, distinct from crime control or
punishment. It is argued that crime prevention is defined not by the
outcome (the prevention of crime), but by the approach taken. Crime
prevention refers to efforts to prevent crime or criminal offending in the
first instance—before the act is committed. Crime prevention and crime
control share the goal of preventing future criminal acts. What further
distinguishes them is that prevention occurs outside of the formal justice
system, as one of its goals is to keep young people out of the criminal
 justice system.

D. PROBLEM STATEMENT
Crime Mapping is seen as one of the innovations of Local Law
Enforcement to maintain peace and order within a certain jurisdiction.
While its use has been encouraged by the Philippine National Police
through the Directorate of Investigation and Detective Management
(DIDM), its translation into actual Crime Prevention Strategies and
Policies has yet to see implementation – particularly in lower local
government units. Therefore, this study aims to seek the correlation
between Crime Prevention Strategies to the use of Crime Mapping in the
Locality of Amadeo, Cavite.

E. PURPOSE STATEMENT
In line with Policy Review, the purpose of this research study is to
foremost identify if the target locality of Amadeo, Cavite is utilizing
Crime Mapping or Crime Maps in its policies towards Crime Prevention
within its jurisdiction. This identification is also an assessment of the
strategy formulation and whether Amadeo, Cavite has faced any
challenges or constraints in the process. It is evaluative in nature as the
end product of the research is to provide new insight on possible existing
policies and give thorough review and recommendation on Crime
Prevention policies and programs.

F. RESEARCH QUESTIONS
Objective: To provide new insight on possible existing policies and give
thorough review and recommendation on Crime Prevention policies and
programs. The research study aims to address the following questions and
objectives:
1. Is the Local Government of Amadeo, Cavite utilizing Crime
Mapping in its Crime Prevention Strategies or in other policies
in relation to peace and order and law enforcement?
2. Is there proper utilization and transfer of information into Crime
Prevention Strategies and policies in Amadeo, Cavite?
3. What are the constraints, challenges, and Opportunities that the
Municipality of Amadeo, Cavite has faced in the effective
utilization of the information provided by the Crime Maps?

G. SCOPE OF STUDY
 This study focuses on the Use of Crime Mapping in Crime Prevention
Strategies in Amadeo, Cavite: Basis for Policy Review. The data collection
will be conducted on 30 randomly selected local government employees
and members of the community in Amadeo, Cavite who will represent the
population.

H. LIMITATIONS
This research study is limited to assessing the locality of Amadeo, Cavite,
and the policies that its local government has implemented through the
utilization of Crime Mapping. Furthermore, the study also limits itself to
the policies and strategies concerned with Crime Prevention, Law
Enforcement, and Peace and Order.

I. SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY
In its entirety, this research focuses on three (3) main stakeholders: Firstly,
the Local Government of Amadeo, Cavite to which the research is based–
wherein this study would help in providing insight into improved policy
formulation regarding peace and order within the jurisdiction. Secondly,
this research is beneficial to the community of Amadeo, Cavite that it may
serve as an avenue of transparency as to how its local government unit and
other law enforcement agencies create Crime Prevention Strategies. And
lastly, to the PNPA community, particularly to future cadets who wish to
pursue Policy Review and research into Crime Prevention Strategy.

J. REFERENCES:
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