Validity of a scale of neighbourhood informal social control relevant to pre-schoolers’ physical activity: A cross-sectional study [PDF]
SSM: Population Health, 2017 Childhood physical activity (PA) is important for health across the lifespan. Time pre-schoolers spend outdoors, which has been associated with more PA, is likely influenced by parents’ perception of neighbourhood informal social control relevant to pre ...
Ester Cerin +4 more
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The Formal-Informal Control Nexus During COVID-19: What Drives Informal Social Control of Social Distancing Restrictions During Lockdown? [PDF]
Crime Delinq, 2023 The public rely on the police to enforce the law, and the police rely on the public to report crime and assist them with their enquiries. Police action or inaction can also impact on public willingness to informally intervene in community problems.
Sargeant E +3 more
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An exploratory assessment model for preventing individual extreme violent crimes from a social control perspective—a qualitative study of four Chinese cases [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionIndividual extreme violent crimes pose a severe threat to public safety. From a social control perspective, this paper explores the dimensions of “formal control,” “informal control,” and “self-control”.
Gu Anqi
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Controlled Sequential Information Fusion With Social Sensors [PDF]
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2021 A sequence of social sensors estimate an unknown parameter (modeled as a state of nature) by performing Bayesian Social Learning, and myopically optimize individual reward functions. The decisions of the social sensors contain quantized information about the underlying state.
Sujay Bhatt, Vikram Krishnamurthy
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Reintegrative shaming: Informal means of formal social control of crime [PDF]
Specijalna Edukacija i Rehabilitacija, 2012 Social control includes all social processes, institutions and methods that produce conformity or regulate the individual and collective conduct of its members. Most of the authors distinguish between informal and formal means of social control.
Vasiljević-Prodanović Danica
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Jurnal Aplikasi Bisnis dan Manajemen, 2023 Social security should be mandatory for all members of society to protect them from social risks, including the informal workers who are particularly vulnerable to such risks.
Mohamad Rhesa Adisty +2 more
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An Analysis of the Determinants of Informal Employment in Urban and Rural Regions in Iran: Pseudo-Panel Data Approach [PDF]
فصلنامه پژوهشهای اقتصادی ایران, 2021 Informal employment typically poses many problems for communities and governments. For example, most informal workers face problems relating to poverty and economic insecurity due to the lack of a social security organization and labor law in the ...
Shahryar Zaroki +2 more
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Informal Employment as a Threat to Social Security in the Labor Market in Ukraine within an Economic Transformation [PDF]
Problemi Ekonomiki, 2020 The specific features of informal employment, which is one of the main threats to social security in the labor market, in the context of transformational changes in the economic environment have been identified, and current trends in informal employment ...
Bondarevska Kseniia V.
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Social Resources and Community Resilience in the Wake of Superstorm Sandy. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Recovery efforts after natural disasters typically focus on physical infrastructure. In general less attention is paid to the social infrastructure that might impact the capacity of the community to rebuild.
Kathleen A Cagney +3 more
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Informal social control and intimate partner violence [PDF]
Injury Prevention, 2014 Emery et al 1 have conducted an important study to evaluate the protective effects of informal social control on intimate partner violence (IPV). They hypothesised that in China, where IPV prevalence is high and the formal social control of IPV is poor, informal social control might reduce IPV injuries and IPV.
Achini, Jayatilleke +3 more
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