Problems regarding graffiti vandalism

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As we know, Graffiti vandalism has been spread through out the certain quarter of the world including Malaysia especially in urban area or the other suburban area such as Kuala Lumpur, Johor Bahru, Seremban, Klang and Penang.

Graffiti is consider as the serious vandalism that widely occurred around the world. According to Paper (2015) he said that the graffiti is an activity that are consider as destroying the public property without the permission from the government agencies. This is due to the fact that, most of the communities nowadays tends to have delinquent behaviour as they need to balance their life but then, they are involving themselves in graffiti activities.

In Malaysia, especially in the capital city such as Kuala Lumpur,Penang and Ipoh, graffiti has occurred as an arts that can attract huge number of foreign visitors, in order to increase the income of our country, reduce crime and also to control the delinquent behaviour among the communities. (Shobri, Sakip, & Daud, 2017). Unfortunately, in certain parts of positive impact of graffiti arts, there are some negative impact that are affecting the life of the communities. The local authorities or the owner of the building frequently having the same problems in doing the maintenance on the buildings due to the existence of graffiti arts.





 These are some of the graffiti vandalism that occurs in foreign country. 
Source: google image


Besides, the public perception regarding the graffiti art are refer to the communities especially teenagers who are having delinquent behaviour. In Malaysia, the graffiti arts are actively occurred in urban area for instance; Kuala Lumpur, Johor Bahru and Penang. But all these activities has been spreading into the other small suburban. Although this kind of activity has been spreading and certain group of public will think that graffiti is a negative activity, but then are huge number of the followers who are actively involved in graffiti arts throughout the peninsular.


This is where the investigation are made to identify the factor that will influence the social contribution in graffiti arts from the view of leisure and recreation. The factor will considering the social, economy and the environment in the study area. The factor are influencing the social contribution in graffiti arts are identify such as leisure time used, demographic, culture, behaviour, lifestyle, and technology (Statistics Canada, 2012)