A regular theme of the Trump Administration's messaging on immigration has been to present undocumented "bad hombres" as an immediate threat to the safety and cohesion of the American family unit.
Inequality is bad for democracy, health, safety, social cohesion and social mobility.
However, neighbourhood definitions are likely to vary from person to person, or between home and work, and are influenced by subjective considerations (such as perceptions of safety, social cohesion, and "sense of place" 43 62).
Although social factors such as neighborhood safety, social cohesion, and perceptions of crime have been examined among multi-ethnic cohorts of adolescents participating in research studies such as the Healthy Passages Study [ 31], additional neighborhood features that might specifically affect African American adolescents' participation in physical activity and obesity outcomes warrant attention.
This paper reports on the development, pilot testing, and initial validation of the Peace Evaluation Across Cultures and Environments (the PEACE scale), a psychometric tool designed to assess an individuals' experience of peace across multiple, related psycho-social domains (e.g., emotional distress, security, safety, social cohesion, access to basic necessities).
Over the past two years, the government has taken measures to promote social cohesion, safety and security, stability and mutual respect.
This was the way of a church that had been around since the days when enslaved black men and women, in a quest for safety, community, dignity, cohesion, empowerment, ritual, and peace, broke from white churches and built "invisible" institutions, sometimes called "hush harbors".
While the EssenCES measure does not directly capture social capital, it measures elements of social capital such as safety, inmates' social cohesion and mutual support (whereby the care expressed between inmates is measured), and hold and support (a measure of the level of support provided by staff to inmates).
Experts also look to the broader return on investment these green spaces provide to tree and park-laden neighborhoods -- in terms of increased safety, greater social cohesion and community connection, and improved health -- while the public isn't thinking in those terms.
For instance, earlier studies have reported a positive association between neighbourhood education and greater neighbourhood safety and social cohesion (e.g., [ 68]).
