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A Letter from China: Social Control in China—A Formal or an Informal Mechanism?

Crime Prevention and Community Safety, 2001
Many think that formal social control refers to a criminal justice system in which there are rather many state organs/agencies (eg, police, courts, prisons) to maintain public order, while informal social control refers to the broader social system. This paper argues that China has traditionally established a social control system by making use of the ...
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The Differential Effects of Informal and Formal Social Controls on the Processing of Status Offenders

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 1998
Many studies have examined gender bias within juvenile court processing of delinquents, but few have examined the theoretical relationship between informal and formal social controls and a juvenile offender's disposition. This thesis integrates Black's theory of social control and feminist theory to hypothesize that a breakdown in informal controls ...
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"Formal Control, Social Networks and CSR: A Study of the Buyer-Supplier Relationship Context"

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2015
Despite wide recognition that a downstream buyer should extend its responsibility to ensure its upstream supplier behaves in a socially responsible way, how the buyer can do so remains in question....
Wenqian Li, Yi Liu, Yonghai Liao
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Modernization, formal social control, and anomie: A 45-society multilevel analysis

International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 2017
This article investigates how economic modernization affects normative regulation by spurring formal social control in the political, economic, and private spheres as well as anomie. Multilevel negative binomial regression modeling, using World Values Survey and country-level data from 2005, predicts individual-level anomie using country-level formal ...
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System Design and Social Reality: Formal and Informal Aspects of Administrative Control

Personnel Review, 1976
When computers were first used in work organizations they were seen principally as devices able to perform simple and limited functions. In consequence they were used to automate routine tasks which had previously been done manually — producing bills, payrolls etc — and they appeared in organizations primarily concerned with large‐scale information ...
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Collective Sanctions and Compliance Norms: A Formal Theory of Group-Mediated Social Control

American Sociological Review, 1990
The link between external sanctions and intragroup normative control is examined to distinguish the conditions under which the two control systems augment or weaken one another. I construct a dynamic rational choice model that incorporates essential features of the sanction/norm link.
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Does Control Matter? Exploring the Effects of Formal Control and Social Control on Knowledge Transfer in Service Supply Chain

2014
This paper presents the effect of control on knowledge transfer in service supply chain with an empirical data from China Mobile. Formal control and Social control are mechanisms usually taken to promote knowledge transfer by buyer in service supply chain.
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Formal or informal social control? Responding to family polyvictimization

2016
Building on his research on co-occurrence of violence within a family, Dr. Chan is the first to develop and apply the concept of family polyvictimization in literature. When studying the co-occurring victimization within a family, current literature often focuses on individual violence and fails to cover three forms of violence or more in a family. Dr.
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OS FUNDAMENTOS DA LEGITIMIDADE DO CONTROLE SOCIAL FORMAL

Anais do I Congresso Nacional Violência e Controle Social, 2020
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