Abstract:
The purposes of this quantitative research are to examine the background of the villagers in Nakhonpathom, explore their awareness of negative effect of drug, and study factors contributing to villagers' participation in Narcotic Crime Prevention. Data were collected from 271 people in a village in Nakhonpathom through Simple Random Sampling. It was found that the background of the villagers, which are length of residence, social status , high school or other equivalent diploma, Master' degree or Doctoral degree, occupation , including their awareness of negative effects of drugs correlated with their participation in community narcotic crime prevention with statistical significance at 0.05. Therefore, it is apparent that the aforementioned variables influence the community participation in Narcotic Crime Prevention up to 51.5 percent.