EWC 661

ENGLISH FOR REPORT WRITING

PROPOSOL OF REPORT WRITING

“STEALING CASES AMONG UNIVERSITIES STUDENTS”

Prepared for : Madam Nurbaya Binti Mohamad Aris

Prepared by : 1. Johan Aliff Bin Wan Ajhar 2017466056

2. Mohd Hazwan Bin Khuirauni 2017466068

3. Muhammad Addin Bin Md Fauzi 2017466116

4. Muhammad Syahmi Bin Azmi 2017466114

Group : EH2434B

Date of submission : 31th March 2019

1. INTRODUCTION

In this world, millions of students travel to college campuses to live on their own for the
first time ever. Others are returning to university environments for another semester of
independent living, either residing in dorms or at off-campus apartments. For new and
returning students alike, safety is a big issue, virtually all campuses sponsor safety awareness
programs to help students stay secure. Most of the programs focus on staying safe from
assault, but that’s not the only crime students have to worry about, stealing cases is a major
problem on many universities, and theft of electronics is also rampant, not just on college
campuses, but everywhere (Ebbett, 2001). The good news is that there are ways students can
protect the items they value the most. But the first step is recognizing what they’re up against.

Despite the early age of onset of stealing, as well as the significant adult morbidity
associated with this behaviour, stealing among student has historically received relatively
little attention from clinicians and researchers. Limited research suggests that students who
steal have impairments in problem-solving skills and a cognitive bias toward inappropriate
solutions to problems. Other research suggests that parent-child difficulties, school failure,
and negative peer influences underlie students stealing. However, the stealing cases among
students increases year by year. This situation occur because of students themselves are not
cautious of their own belonging. The thieves have no guilt towards their action and
punishments charged on them are not heavy enough.

In the present study, we assessed a large sample of public high school students regarding
stealing behaviours. Although previous research suggests that stealing and antisocial
behaviours are linked, no study has systematically examined the relationship of stealing to a
range of behaviours and health functioning (Acad, 2011). Given the incomplete data on the
co-occurrence of stealing and other variables among students, the purpose of this study was
to fill these gaps in knowledge.

2. PROBLEM STATEMENT

As a university’s student, we hold many of valuable stuff in our pockets and bag like cell
phone, wallet, laptop and others. The fact that not all students were well prepared with their
stuff and insufficient cash lead to these problem. But I would agree not all students behave
like that hence the one that actually practice stealing other belongings as their problem solver
must has problem with their moral value (low moral value). Most campus authorities cannot
do much to help student, thus lack of action taken inside the campus. Overall action should be
done by students itself by controlling their carelessness so that it would be impossible for
their stuff got stolen. If not, students could suffer overburden financial pressure and
emotionally broken.

 What are the reasons of stealing cases in UiTM Shah Alam?

 What are the impacts of stealing cases on university students?
 What is the usual time of stealibng activities?

3. OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY

The intention of this study is to investigate stealing impact on universities students. This
study suggest several research objective to be achieved as below:

 To investigate the reason why stealing case occurs.

 To study the impact of stealing cases on university students.
 To identify the usual time of stealing activities.

4. SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY
The findings of the study will benefit students, faculties and higher learning institutions in
general in several ways. First and foremost, on university level, the higher authorities will be
acknowledged about what stealing could affect everyone’s behaviour and something have to
been done. Thus, they will enhanced university’s law by which cooperation of police
department to overcome stealing problems from keeps spreading. The findings will also
benefit the faculties in helping to alert student from becoming victims by several ways
including patching poster “secure your belonging”, programs and talks from the expertise.
Furthermore, this study will reminds students to improve their awareness and teach them to
appreciate their belongings as stealing can be done by anyone at any places on any time.

5. LIMITATIONS
There are several potential limitations in this study. According to Dole (n.d), every battle can
be won except against the time. Due to there are only 14 weeks in a semester, we are needed
to push ourselves to settle everything in the short period of time. In addition, the data is
collected among 50 random respondents in UiTM Shah Alam which has different in
background and it is based on their past experiences directly or indirectly dealing with
stealing cases.
6. PREVIOUS STUDIES
The strong positive correlations were between awareness and students’ watchfulness of
belongings at the universities. These correlations indicate that students who are aware of
crime prevention are also more watchful of their belongings, they practice crime prevention.

These findings support research on students’ fear of victimization at universities

(Woolnough, 2009). Perhaps the level of awareness and behaviour among college students
has evolved since Fisher (1998) research findings that claimed students underestimate their
risk for property victimization.

Jennings (2007) research on property victimization on campus state that male students report
significantly more property victimization than female students, yet female students are most
likely to report fear of victimization. Although stealing cases occur in male campus are more
often than in female campus, but still there are cases reported in female campus. Which
means, stealing case cannot be generalized to only one particular gender as both gender, male
and female, can be the culprit.

If research concludes that students are mostly negligent in their measures of crime
prevention on campus (Barberet, 2019), then a more thorough understanding of ways to
improve students’ crime prevention measures may provide answers to reducing property
theft, fear of crime, and victimization on campus.

Very little is known about whether students deliberately prevent becoming victims of
property crime or whether it is simply up to the convergence of three elements in space and
time: motivated offender, suitable target, and a lacking guardian (Cohen & Felson, 1979). As
for these, awareness must come first in our mind as property victimization could be done by
anyone at any place at any time.

This study hopefully would be able to a better information or knowledge to universities

student’s about awareness and behaviour of stealing prevention in their college environment
as their one of the first priority.

7. METHODOLOGY
This survey will be conducted at UiTM Shah Alam, Selangor. The study will get 50
respondents among the students from any courses at this university. The survey consisted of
questionnaire concerning the thief characteristic, stealing behaviour and victim’s mental
health. Stealing behaviour was assessed by asking the students how many time your
belonging’s being stolen at the universities in a typical week. While for the thief
characteristic, the questions that being asked mostly involve the burglars’ behaviour to find
out if they experienced a growing tension or anxiety that lead them to committed crimes. The
victim’s mental health also will be assessed by asking how they feel when their belonging’s
being stolen to find out if they feeling sorrow or hopeless and losing interest in their usual
activities (assessing for depression symptomatology). All of the questions will uses 5-point
Likert-type scales with choices ranging from “strongly agree” to “strongly disagree.” This
study will be conducted on April 2019 and May 2019.

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