Abstract
The Community Safety Map activity is the method by which children develop their own harm prevention skills through experiential learning. This activity shows dangerous or safe places from the perspective of crime prevention through environmental design and broken windows theory. It is found that the community safety mapping activity improved children's crime avoidance ability, communication skills, level of attachment to the local community, and crime prevention ability. However, there are no standard scales for measuring the impact of crime prevention on children. This paper examines the scale for effect of education of crime prevention for children and confirms its validity. First, we made 43 question items. These items were included in the scale. Second, 896 elementary school children were asked to complete a questionnaire. Third, factor analysis was conducted on 43 items. As a result, four factors were found from this analysis: crime-avoidance ability, communication ability, level of attachment to the local community, and ability to prevent delinquency. Judging by the alpha factor, the construct validity of our scale was sufficient. Finally, this questionnaire measuring children's crime-avoidance skills should be administered to children before and after their participation in making community safety maps.
