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Crime in Cities: The Effects of Formal and Informal Social Control
Crime and Justice, 1986This 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 ...
R. Sampson
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Racial Disparity in Formal Social Control
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 2008Prior 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.
Matthew R. Lee, Graham C. Ousey
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Collective Sanctions and Compliance Norms: A Formal Theory of Group-Mediated Social Control [PDF]
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.
D. Heckathorn
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Justice Quarterly, 2016
Objectives. Drawing on several interrelated lines of scholarship, we argue that cultural beliefs at individual and neighborhood levels may affect police and court decisions. We hypothesize that individuals who more strongly adhere to the code of the street or reside in areas where the street code culture is more strongly embraced will be more likely to
Patricia Y. Warren +3 more
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Objectives. Drawing on several interrelated lines of scholarship, we argue that cultural beliefs at individual and neighborhood levels may affect police and court decisions. We hypothesize that individuals who more strongly adhere to the code of the street or reside in areas where the street code culture is more strongly embraced will be more likely to
Patricia Y. Warren +3 more
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Criminal Justice Studies, 2017
AbstractThis study explored the role of sex offender laws, particularly registration and community notification, in deterring individuals from sexual offending. Through qualitative thematic analysis of interviews with 77 registrants, findings suggest that the threat of prison and probation/parole serve as deterrents for some, even though they did not ...
Brooke N. Cooley +2 more
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AbstractThis study explored the role of sex offender laws, particularly registration and community notification, in deterring individuals from sexual offending. Through qualitative thematic analysis of interviews with 77 registrants, findings suggest that the threat of prison and probation/parole serve as deterrents for some, even though they did not ...
Brooke N. Cooley +2 more
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The Chinese paradigm of global supplier relationships: Social control, formal interactions and the mediating role of culture [PDF]
Industrial Marketing Management, 2012 This paper reports the results of a study that examined how firms can establish successful business relationships with Chinese suppliers. Its aim is to explore salient characteristics of the nature of buyer supplier relationships with the emergence of China as a dominant economic power.
Giannakis, Mihalis +2 more
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A Letter from China: Social Control in China—A Formal or an Informal Mechanism?
Crime Prevention and Community Safety, 2001Many 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 ...
H. Toby
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Journal of Supply Chain Management, 2014
Governance is critical to an alliance relationship as it aids in curbing opportunism and thus in achieving higher performance. While research suggests relational governance as well as formal control mechanisms as viable means to reduce opportunistic behavior in an alliance relationship, the effectiveness of the interplay of these governance forms ...
Carl Marcus Wallenburg +1 more
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Governance is critical to an alliance relationship as it aids in curbing opportunism and thus in achieving higher performance. While research suggests relational governance as well as formal control mechanisms as viable means to reduce opportunistic behavior in an alliance relationship, the effectiveness of the interplay of these governance forms ...
Carl Marcus Wallenburg +1 more
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The Theoretical Bases for Inequality in Formal Social Control
Inequality, Crime, and Social Control, 2018C. R. Tittle
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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 ...
D. Herz
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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 ...
D. Herz
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