Strangers in the Neighborhood: Violence and Neighborhood Boundaries

What is it about?

An ethnographic exploration about how neighborhood boundary-keeping impacts the levels of violence in a community.

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Why is it important?

This work adds to the body of knowledge regarding neighborhood violence. How residents work to include or exclude outsiders has an impact on the proliferation of violence inside the community. Explores internal bonding networks and external bridging networks. When residents have high internal bonding networks and low external bridging networks violence thrives.