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... > social science subjects > sociology > sociology of organizations, institutions and structure > communities (sociology) > social life > public harassment

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public harassment  

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  • Public harassment refers to consistent and patterned events of interpersonal harassment that can occur in any community but that are most closely associated with public places in urban areas. In the past in the United States, institutionalized public harassment was used for the very visible embarrassment of people who had broken norms and expectations. [Source: Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World; Public Harassment]

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