Social capital: policy recommendation to promote the capability of crime prevention of local administrative organizations

Abstract

This article has an objective to make policy recommendation to promote the capability of crime prevention of local administrative organizations through utilization of social capital. From studies of research, academic works and corresponding thesis, it can be found that nowadays, policy guidelines for crime prevention in local administrative organizations are headed towards policy guidelines to construct physical infrastructure such as CCTV installation or self-system installation, for example, development of complaint center. And even though there are various factors that affect the capability of local administrative organizations, but the factors that cannot be left out are civil participation and social norms, that is why social capital is the factor that can result in participation, social participation and joint building of norms. Moreover, there are many other studies that show that social capital can contribute to increase efficiency in work based on cooperation, and to crime reduction due to augmentation of surveillance within the society through joint social norms, therefore it is an inevitable factor to increase the capability in order to achieve such goal. As a result, this article presents guidelines to build new-model policies that will result in social capital increment, which is like laying out milestones and social system that are not physical like before in order to increase the capability of crime prevention of local administrative organizations.