Perspect Public Health
January 2024
The concentration of students in neighbourhoods through processes of studentification has often precipitated conflicts with other residents centred on behavioural issues and perceived neighbourhood decline. Dominant policy responses have been exclusive in nature, attempting to restrict where students can live or to encourage them to live in purpose-built student accommodation in designated areas. Drawing primarily on interviews with key informants in Waterloo, Canada, I examine a process of 'post-studentification' where non-student residents are instead integrated into student-dominated neighbourhoods through urban intensification, promoted by an alternative policy approach.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Exposure to multiple forms of community violence in youth is associated with a wide range of negative health outcomes. A number of scales measuring community violence exposure have been developed, including the Child Exposure to Community Violence Checklist (CECV).
Purpose: This study examined the psychometric properties of an adapted version of the CECV in a South African sample of trauma-exposed youths.