Nurul Hazrina Mazlan

Problem statement Increase involvement of youth in substance abuse has been a major issue internationally. Various studies have been conducted to explore the risk factors, which mostly focus on their childhood trauma experiences. Research questions What is the prevalence of substance abuse and childhood trauma experiences among incarcerated youth?...

The objectives of this study were to compare the prevalence of stress and depression between men and women inmates, and to determine the association between stress and depression. A cross-sectional study involving 426 inmates (227 males, 199 females) was designed. Two self-report surveys were used to collect data related to stress and depression. D...

Introduction: A review of the criminological literature indicates that some personality traits appear to develop and shape violent criminal behaviour. With this in mind, the present study was aimed to examine the personality profiles of Malaysian male murderers utilising the Alternative Five Factor Model (AFFM) constituting five personality traits:...

This paper reports a university-community engagement: Kelantan Safe Community (SafeCom2012) conducted by the Forensic Science Programme, USM in Kelantan, Malaysia. To affect a holistic transformation, the aims of this programme were to promote crime prevention at the community level by facilitating significant contact between relevant crime-prevent...

Problem statement: Increase involvement of youth in substance abuse has been a major issue internationally. Various studies were conducted to explore the risk factors, which mostly focusing on their childhood trauma experiences. Research questions: What is the prevalence of substance abuse and childhood trauma experiences among incarcerated youth...

Childhood trauma experiences are the most common risk factors often been related to aggressive and criminal behaviors among incarcerated person. The traumas experienced during childhood, such as physical, verbal, and emotional abuse, are suggested to contribute to the development of aggressiveness among the population. The objective of this study i...

Despite of many studies on work-related violence, little has been focused on security-related profession. The negative impacts of violence at work have been proven by previous studies, marking the importance to explore the risk factors that may lead to the crisis. With security guards as the central focus, this study aimed to identify types of ment...

Objectives: The aim of this study is to validate the Malay version of the Aggression Questionnaire (AQ) for the purpose of the future study related to aggression. Furthermore, the study seeks to identify types of aggression hold by the female inmates. Methods: A cross-sectional study was designed involving 90 Malaysian female prisoners. The analyse...

In Malaysia, no local psychometric instrument to perceive stress is available. The aim of this study is to translate the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) in the national language of Malaysia, and validate the Malay-translated versions of the PSS. The validation process was conducted among female prisoners to enable use of the Malay-translated PSS among...

Females’ pathways to criminality are significantly different from the male. The types of crimes committed by female, their level of violence, and their background are shown to be very different than those of male. Therefore, to make a significant impact on the female offender and her criminal lifestyle, this study aims to identify the psychological...

Abstract: The objectives of this study are to examine the relationship between stress and depression, and to acquire the effect of depression towards aggression. The focus is on female prisoners in Peninsular Malaysia. Stress is suggested as one of the common causes for depression among female. Depression is a type of common mental health problems...

The objective of this study is to examine the relationship between childhood trauma experiences (CTE), substance abuse (SA), and borderline personality disorder (BPD). In many countries, various studies regarding CTE among female, especially those involved in the criminal justice system is very common. The findings showed that CTE is strongly relat...

Abuse of substance was found highly prevalence among prisoners all over the world. It is strongly believed that substance abuse has contribute to violence and aggressive behavior, and hence, to crime. Various substances often been abused, such as stimulant, depressant and hallucinogen, leads to different effects among the abuser. Stimulant acts pri...

Increase in the number of juvenile offenders nowadays has proved that there are causes that disturbed the well-being of the youth. These causes may lead to disturbance in their thought and behavior, and consequently may lead to mental health problems and aggressive behavior. Many studies had explored the etiology of this disturbance and suggested c...

Increase in the number of juvenile offender has alerted the society, mainly adult that there are some possible risk factors that may lead to this emerging problem. Numerous studies had been conducted to explore the risk factors and mostly suggested mental health problems as the biggest part in problems among juvenile. One of the most common mental...

Work-related violence has been recognized as one of increasing occupational hazard in the recent years. Many studies have proved the negative impact of this problem; however none is specific on the world’s fastest growing profession, security guard. Therefore, this study was conducted to discover the risk factors for work-related violence, namely a...

Depression has been studied extensively among female. Childhood trauma experiences and stress had been suggested as risk factors to depression. Furthermore, depression had been related to aggression and violence. A cross-sectional study had been designed to examine the depression, its risk factors (childhood trauma experiences and stress) and the p...

The objective of this study is to understand how personality disorders affect the way human behave and their effects towards human social relationship. The focus is female prisoners in Peninsular Malaysia. Personality and human behavior is closely related to one another. Personality creates how a person behaves and directly affects the engineering...

The objective of this study is to understand the common mental health problems among female offenders and how they affect the society through application of rehabilitation program. Female offenders have always been a minor subject in research and study. So far, theory and research relating to crime had been focusing on male offenders. As a result,...