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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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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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The control of social intervention:Managing the tension between formal and informal control (WITHDRAWN)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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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 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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Cancer treatment and survivorship statistics, 2022

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2022
Kimberly D Miller, Leticia M Nogueira, Angela B Mariotto   +2 more
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