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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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Understanding and Controlling Hot Spots of Crime: The Importance of Formal and Informal Social Controls

Prevention Science, 2013
Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention programs that address opportunity or structural factors related to crime are usually delivered to entire cities, sections of cities or to specific neighborhoods, but our results indicate geographically targeting these programs to specific street segments may increase their efficacy. We link crime incidents to
David, Weisburd   +2 more
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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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Formal perspectives on shared interbrain activity in social communication

Cognitive Neurodynamics, 2022
The mechanisms underlying a reorientation of neuroscience from a single-brain to a multi-brain frame of reference have long been with us. These revolve around the evolutionary exaptation of the inevitable second-law 'leakage' of crosstalk between co-resident cognitive phenomena.
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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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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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