  Parker Solar Probe (PSP) routinely observes magnetic field deflections in the
solar wind at distances less than 0.3 au from the Sun. These deflections are
related to structures commonly called 'switchbacks' (SBs), whose origins and
characteristic properties are currently debated. Here, we use a database of
visually selected SB intervals - and regions of solar wind plasma measured just
before and after each SB - to examine plasma parameters, turbulent spectra from
inertial to dissipation scales, and intermittency effects in these intervals.
We find that many features, such as perpendicular stochastic heating rates and
turbulence spectral slopes are fairly similar inside and outside of SBs.
However, important kinetic properties, such as the characteristic break scale
between the inertial to dissipation ranges differ inside and outside these
intervals, as does the level of intermittency, which is notably enhanced inside
SBs and in their close proximity, most likely due to magnetic field and
velocity shears observed at the edges. We conclude that the plasma inside and
outside of a SB, in most of the observed cases, belongs to the same stream, and
that the evolution of these structures is most likely regulated by kinetic
processes, which dominate small scale structures at the SB edges.
