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Drug Diffusion and Social Change: The Illusion about a Formal Social Control

open access: closedThe Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 1994
Abstract: Evolution of the Italian penal legislation on illicit drugs. The ‘autonomous’ evolution of the spread of drugs and the lack of substantial response to the attempts at legal control. Structural socio‐economic change in the country. The connection between this change and the spread of drugs.
Luigi M. Solivetti
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Correlates of formal and informal social/crime control in China: An exploratory study

open access: closedJournal of Criminal Justice, 2007
Abstract There are two major ways for a society to control its members, formal and informal. A major goal of both forms of control is to curb criminal behavior. Formal criminal justice control uses the law and official government agencies (e.g., police, courts, and corrections) to ensure compliance.
Shanhe Jiang, Eric G. Lambert, Wang Jin
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Formal and Informal Social Control of Family Violence

2022
Abstract When intimate partner violence (IPV) is deterred or completely avoided, children benefit by living in a more stable, secure familial environment free from violence. This chapter reviews the research literature, with a particular focus on the relationship between social control and IPV, organizing the literature on both formal ...
Clifton R. Emery, Alhassan Abdullah
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Racial Disparity in Formal Social Control

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 2008
Prior research on racial disparities in arrest rates has been limited by an almost exclusive focus on two explanatory models, an inattention to the mediating processes identified in leading theories, and a relative neglect of nonindex crimes, for which police discretion is greater.
Graham C. Ousey, Matthew R. Lee
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Formal Social Control and Mental Health: Ethnic Variation among Black Women

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 2023
The present study uses elements of the social stress and intersectionality theories to examine associations between forms of criminal justice contact and mental health among African American and Afro-Caribbean women. While mass incarceration disproportionately targets, detains, and affects Black populations, the experiences and consequences of ...
Ryan D. Talbert, Evelyn J. Patterson
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Formal and Informal Social Controls of Employee Deviance

The Sociological Quarterly, 1982
Using the phenomenon of deviance by employees against the rules of the formal work organization as the behavior of interest, the differential saliences of both formal (i.e., management) and informa...
Richard C. Hollinger, John P. Clark
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Two models of formal social control

Journal of Criminal Justice, 1984
In recent years there has been an increasing concern with the link between judicial decisions and the socio-political attributes of the environment in which courts function. Little attention has been paid to the link between attorneys' advice and that same court environment. This study fills the gap. In this paper two models of formal social control
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