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Influence of criminal intelligence on effectiveness of crime management in Juja constituency, Kiambu county, Kenya

dc.contributor.advisorDr.Judy W. Mwangi
dc.contributor.authorDaniel Wagucu
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-26T06:43:11Z
dc.date.graduated2025
dc.date.issued2025-07
dc.description.abstractThis study focused on examining the influence of crime intelligence on effectiveness of crime management within Juja Constituency, Kiambu County. The study sought to achieve the ensuing study objectives with regards to the study location; Examine the influence of leadership support in criminal intelligence on crime management; Assess the influence of resource adequacy in criminal intelligence on crime management; Analyze the influence of stakeholder’s participation in criminal intelligence on crime management, and To establish the influence of criminal intelligence sharing on crime management effectiveness. The theory of resource based guided this study. This is was a mixed method study. The was founded on a convergent parallel research design in analysing and integrating quantitative methods such as survey responses and qualitative data such as interviews. This study had a target population of 254 persons involved directly and indirectly in crime management in Juja Constituency. Slovin Formula was used to determine a sample size of 155. The selection of the respondents was through the use of stratified and simple random sampling techniques. The study used questionnaire s and interview guies to collet data. Descriptive and inferential statistical analsyis techniques was used to collate and anlyse data. The study established that leadership support significantly influence on effectiveness of crime management in Juja sub County in Kiambu County positively (B1= 0.610). From the results, resource adequacy had a significant positive influence on effectiveness of crime management in the Juja Sub County. Aditinally, the study found that a unit increase in resource adequacy in crime intelligence would lead to a noteworthy transformation in effectiveness of crime management in Juja Sub County in Kiambu County by regression factor B2= 0.569). Regression findings revealed that stakeholder participation in criminal intelligence had a significant positive influence on effectiveness of crime management (B1= 0.418, P- Value = .002<0.05, t=7.602. The findings were affirmed by regression results which revealed that crime intelligence sharing had a significant positive influence on effectiveness of crime management (B4= 0.651, P- Value = .002<0.05). The study concluded the following with regards to the study area; that leadership support predicts effectiveness of crime management, and that resource adequacy, stakeholder participation, and crime intelligence sharing all greatly influenced the effectiveness of crime management. The research recommends crime intelligence practices as a key determinant on effectiveness of crime management in Juja Sub County in Kiambu County.
dc.identifier.urihttps://erepository.mku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/7296
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherMount Kenya University
dc.subjectCrime
dc.titleInfluence of criminal intelligence on effectiveness of crime management in Juja constituency, Kiambu county, Kenya
dspace.entity.typeThesisen

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