Table 7 Challenges of PSCs to household/community by SE status
From: An assessment of households’ perceptions of private security companies and crime in urban Ghana
Challenges | Community SE status | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Low | Middle | High | Total | |
Increased household expenditure | 21.9 | 23.4 | 35.3 | 28.8 |
Increased industrial/companies’ expenditure | 18.8 | 15.9 | 33.3 | 24.3 |
Weakened/compromised household security | 18.8 | 22.1 | 7.7 | 15.0 |
Weakened/compromised neighbourhood security | 15.6 | 11.0 | 8.3 | 10.2 |
Duplicating police effort | 12.5 | 7.6 | 4.5 | 6.6 |
Allowed criminals to infiltrate neighbourhood | 9.3 | 6.9 | 3.2 | 5.4 |
Increased crime occurrence | 3.1 | 4.8 | 1.9 | 3.3 |
Other | 0.0 | 8.3 | 5.8 | 6.3 |
Total | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |