Reasons for conflicts
| Closed-ended responses (n=158) | Open-ended responses (n=105) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | ncategory* | nsubcategory† | % | ||
| Personal altercation | 102 | 64.6 | 57 | Disrespect | 11 | 19.3 |
| Dispute over territory | 9 | 15.8 | ||||
| Theft | 8 | 14.0 | ||||
| Disagreement about money | 6 | 10.5 | ||||
| Physical confrontation | 5 | 8.8 | ||||
| Threatened kin | 5 | 8.8 | ||||
| Snitching | 4 | 7.0 | ||||
| Other | 9 | 15.8 | ||||
| Retaliation | 23 | 14.6 | 14 | Dispute over territory | 4 | 28.6 |
| Disagreement about money | 3 | 21.4 | ||||
| Physical confrontation | 3 | 21.4 | ||||
| Robbery | 2 | 14.3 | ||||
| Other | 2 | 14.3 | ||||
| Gang | 46 | 29.1 | ||||
| Narcotics | 17 | 10.7 | ||||
| Domestic violence | 16 | 10.1 | ||||
| Robbery | 7 | 4.4 | ||||
| Child abuse | 3 | 1.9 | ||||
| Other | 35 | 22.2 | ||||
| Don't know | 11 | 7.0 | ||||
For the closed-ended item ‘reason for conflict’, outreach workers chose from the nine categories in the leftmost column (not mutually exclusive). Coding of the open-ended responses showed distinct subcategories for ‘personal altercation’ and ‘retaliation’.
*ncategory is the number of conflicts for which open-ended responses were available within the closed-ended category; used as the denominator for the subcategory percentages.
†nsubcategory is the frequency with which specific conflict triggers were cited within a particular category.