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The Effectiveness of Social Capital as added Value to Gated and Guarded Community as Safety Basic in Residential Area

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The rapid growth of a gated community in Malaysia is due to public concerns over the safety of their family. Currently this concept has expanded to almost all cities over the world. In Malaysia, the concept of gated and guarded communities has more concentrated to the big cities which allow an increasing in the crime case problems. The concept of a gated and guarded community emphasizes the security issues from the physical aspects such as fencing and a combination of privacy and lifestyle of the population itself. While social capital is a concept that emphasizes the values in the individual itself as trust, a good network of relationships and mutual assistance to each other in the community. The method use is discourse analysis by using journals and other sources of reading as a reference. Therefore this study will discuss the extent to which the concept of a gated and guarded community with the addition of the social capital can ensure safety the residents. As a result, there are features in the social capital when combined with the physical aspects of a gated community to ensure community safety is guaranteed.
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In-Text Citation: (I. N. binti Abdullah, Malek, & Manaf, 2019)
To Cite this Article: Abdullah, I. N. B, Malek, J. A., & Manaf, A. A. (2019). The Effectiveness of Social Capital as Added Value to Gated and Guarded Community as Safety Basic in Residential Area. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 9(6), 1084–1093.