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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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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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Exploring the Relationships between Strategy, Innovation, and Management Control Systems: The Roles of Social Networking, Organic Innovative Culture, and Formal Controls

Journal of Management Accounting Research, 2011
ABSTRACT This paper is concerned with the relationship between strategy, management control systems (MCS), and innovation. MCS are described in terms of a package of controls that is comprised of social networking, organic innovative culture, and formal controls.
Chenhall, Robert H., Kallunki, Juha-Pekka, Silvola, Hanna   +2 more
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Formal Control, Social Control and Guanxi in IT Outsourcing: A Study in Chinese Firms

2017
Despite the fast growing trend, it is reported that IT outsourcing in China is fraught with high rates of failure. The buyers of IT outsourcing services in China face difficulties in selecting service providers, negotiating managing contracts, and maintain good relationship due to a lack of systematic guidelines on which governance mechanism to deploy ...
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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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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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OS FUNDAMENTOS DA LEGITIMIDADE DO CONTROLE SOCIAL FORMAL

Anais do I Congresso Nacional Violência e Controle Social, 2020
Marcio Aleandro Correia Teixeira, Cláudio Alberto Gabriel Guimarães   +1 more
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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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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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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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