A study on the importance of social integration towards perception of safety among neighbourhood: case study in Vista Ilmu neighbourhood watch area / Nur'liana Kiplie and Nur Faziellah Salleh

Safety is really an important needs that must be included in the neighbourhood area. It has been included in the Maslow’s hierarchy that stated one of the basic needs that must have in order to ensure the quality of life is safety and security. Based on Social Integration Model, in order to inhibit fear of crime among neighbourhood, there are various characteristics that must be embedded in neighbourhood area which are neighbourhood cohesion, social control (willingness to intervene also sense of community (Okunola and Amole, 2012). Thus, the research aim to study on the sense of community, neighbourhood cohesion also willingness to intervene in the neighbourhood area and whether it has influence towards residents perception of safety. In this study, the researchers focus on the Neighbourhood Watch area as the researchers aware on the roles of Neighbourhood Watch as one of the medium to strengthen the neighbourhood social relation (JPNIN, 2017) by getting them involve in various activities. Neighbourhood Watch in Vista Ilmu, Samarahan has been chosen as the study area. This research based on the data that has been obtained through questionnaire. Purposive sampling techniques has been used in this study. The data were analyzed to know whether there is relationship between those two variables also to know the level of the residents willingness to intervene in order to protect their neighbourhood. The research suggested that there are relationship between the independent and dependent variables and high level of social control can increase perception of safety among neighbours.