How to Prevent Violence in Your Neighborhood
Passengers on an airplane spring to action when a stewardess needs help \u2013 but a neighborhood in New York City does very little when a woman is attacked. What\u2019s different ? How can we take what we learn from the airplane and apply it to the attack? Lecturing the neighborhood residents probably won\u2019t help. Can we do anything to the way the neighborhood is laid out to encourage interaction among residents and a greater sense of interdependency among them? We explore the topic of bystander intervention, diffusion of responsibility and the field of community psychology in this episode of The Psych Files.