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The Impact of Formal and Informal Social Controls on the Criminal Activities of Probationers

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 2002
The monthly self-reported criminal activities, risk behaviors, and local life circumstances of offenders who began sentences of probation in northern Virginia were examined during the year prior to arrest, between arrest and probation, and during the first eight months of probation.
Doris Layton Mackenzie, Spencer De Li
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Drug Diffusion and Social Change: The Illusion about a Formal Social Control

The 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.
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Interaction effects of formal and social controls on business-to-business performance

Journal of Business Research, 2014
Abstract Marketing and Strategy studies have treated relational governance as a critical factor of business-to-business (B2B) performance. Extant studies offer contrasting views on whether formal or social control is a better control mechanism, with little known about their interaction effect.
Jin Hwa Rhee, Jae Wook Kim, Jong-Ho 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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Crime in Cities: The Effects of Formal and Informal Social Control

Crime and Justice, 1986
This study examines the structural determinants of robbery and homicide offending in 171 American cities with a population greater than 100,000 in 1980. A macro-level social control model is presented that focuses on the consequences for formal and informal social control of police aggressiveness, jail incarceration risk, state incarceration, and ...
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Correlates of formal and informal social/crime control in China: An exploratory study

Journal 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 Lambert, Jin Wang
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The control of social intervention:Managing the tension between formal and informal control (WITHDRAWN)

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2017
Over the last decades, the management of non-profit organizations (NPOs) has changed considerably.
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Police Legitimacy, Procedural Justice, and Formal Social Control

Procedurally just policing (PJP) has been hailed as a path to greater police legitimacy—which is to say, public trust and confidence in police and a sense of obligation to defer to police and obey the law. Greater police legitimacy is expected to lead to improved public cooperation with law enforcement, such as in reporting crime and calling the police.
Robert E. Worden   +2 more
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