Campus Security and Safety Models: Statistical Empirical Analysis from a Ghanaian Tertiary Institution
Campus Security and Safety Models: Statistical Empirical Analysis from a Ghanaian Tertiary Institution
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2019-12
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Mensah, Francis Owusu
Baafi, Joseph Antwi
Arthur, Yarhands Dissou
Claudia, Omari Somuah
Mprah, Richard
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Journal of Education and Practice
Abstract
All over the world security challenges faced by our traditional settlements is likewise in the university and college
campuses. For this reason campus safety and security has become topical issue of research since parents are
concerned about their wards and educational stakeholders risk losing loosing students because of crime and
violence. With the influx of distance education students on the campus during the weekends and holidays, the issue
of security becomes even more paramount. The current study model students’ perception of campus security
personnel’s using procedural fairness, security effectiveness and trust in security response construct while fear of
crime as well as security corruption are used as predictor construct. PLS-SEM is the quantitative approach used to
investigate effect security corruption and students fear of crime on security procedural fairness, security
effectiveness and students’ trust in security. The study randomly selected 350 regular and distance students,
however 327 returned questionnaires resulting to 93% response rate. The study revealed that students’ fear of
crime and security corruption predicts 71.8% of students’ trust in security. Furthermore, security corruption and
students fear of crime account for 31.2% of students’ perceived security personnel’s procedural fairness. Finally,
the study found that security corruption and students fear of crime accounts for 39.5% of the variability in security
personnel’s effectiveness. The study concluded that students’ fear of crime positively affect their trust in campus
security, however, the corruption on the part of campus security negatively affect students’ trust in campus security,
security personnel’s procedural fairness and effectiveness. The authors recommend that training programmes
should be put in place regularly to sensitise personnel’s on the effect of corruption on their integrity and profession.
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Mensah, F. O., Baafi, J. A., Arthur, Y. D., & Mprah, C. O. S. R. (2019). Campus Security and Safety Models: Statistical Empirical Analysis from a Ghanaian Tertiary Institution.