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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.
Eric G. Lambert, Shanhe Jiang, Jin Wang
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Who will intervene to save news comments? Deviance and social control in communities of news commenters

New Media & Society, 2019
Which bystanders will confront racist, misogynist, personal attacks in news comment sections? This article applies sociological concepts of deviance and social control to categorize efforts to moderate online news comments.
Brendan R. Watson, Zhao Peng, S. Lewis
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Shared Vision in MNE Subsidiaries: The Role of Formal, Personal, and Social Control in Its Development and Its Impact on Subsidiary Learning

, 2012
Given the strategic importance of achieving global integration and worldwide learning for most multinational enterprises (MNEs), this article focuses on “shared vision” as a critical mechanism for realizing both goals.
Saba S. Colakoglu
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Social Control in Schools: The Relationships between School Security Measures and Informal Social Control Mechanisms

Journal of School Violence, 2018
Social control and procedural justice theories indicate that informal social control reduces problem behaviors. However, many schools have implemented formal control mechanisms such as school security measures. This study examines the association between
Benjamin W. Fisher, Joseph H. Gardella, E. Tanner‐Smith   +2 more
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Predictors of desistance among sex offenders: The interaction of formal and informal social controls

Justice Quarterly, 2000
Increasing attention is being given to the issue of desistance or cessation in adult criminal careers. We contribute to this research by considering how informal and formal social controls affect recidivism among 556 sex offenders placed on probation in 1992.
Candace Kruttschnitt, Christopher Uggen, Kelly Shelton   +2 more
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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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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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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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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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"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....
Yi Liu, Yonghai Liao, Wenqian Li
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