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Supported Decision‐Making Rights in Behaviour Support Policies

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disability policy emphasises that people with disability have the right to exercise their will and preferences in their lives, and decision‐making support must be provided to realise this right if they request. One context in which people's will and preferences are often restricted is behaviour support.
Sally Robinson   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social trust and audit report lag: the roles of internal control quality and financial misconduct

open access: yesCogent Business & Management
Drawing from institutional theory, this study investigates the impact of social trust, an informal institutional element, on audit report lag (ARL). This theory underscores the pivotal role of informal institutions in shaping organizational practices ...
Fahad Khalid   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘Giving Back to Our Community’: The Retention of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Disability Workforce in New South Wales, Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia require culturally responsive services. The Australian government has committed to establishing strategies to increase the size of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander disability workforce; however, there is scant research on the factors influencing retention.
J. Gwynn   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Paying for Crimes and Earning Heaven. Daily Life of Imprisoned Women at “El Buen Pastor” Penitentiary 1890-1929.

open access: yesHistoria y Memoria, 2015
During the period of Colombian conservative hegemony, “El Buen Pastor” prison, in Bogotá, provides an illustration of penitentiary politics, as well as the formal and informal mechanisms of social control at the time, gathered in a single institution. In
July Andrea García Amézquita
doaj   +1 more source

Trust and Social Collateral [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper builds a theory of informal contract enforcement in social networks. In our model, relationships between individuals generate social collateral that can be used to control moral hazard when agents interact in a borrowing relationship.
Adam Szeidl, Markus Mobius
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Schools, communities and social capital: building blocks in the 'Big Society' (Research associate full report) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
"This study looked at how effective schools engage with their communities. Its aim was to identify key mechanisms that promoted community engagement. It also sought to determine the impact this had on the amount and nature of social capital available ...
Flint, Neil
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Individual Budgets : Lessons from Early Users' Experiences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Within the context of modernization, there has been a trend towards 'cash-for-care' schemes designed to bring choice and control closer to the service user.
Glendinning, C, Moran, N, Rabiee, P
core   +1 more source

Development and reliability of a scale of physical-activity related informal social control for parents of Chinese pre-schoolers

open access: yesInternational Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2014
BackgroundParents’ perceived informal social control, defined as the informal ways residents intervene to create a safe and orderly neighbourhood environment, may influence young children’s physical activity (PA) in the neighbourhood. This study aimed to
Y. Suen, E. Cerin, R. Mellecker
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Adults With Intellectual Disability Moving out of the Family Home Using the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Family Members' Planning Experiences

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT For adults with intellectual disability and their families, future planning and moving out of the family home in Australia will increasingly occur within the context of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). As a market‐based, individualised funding system its impact on this transition remains largely unknown. This paper reports on a
I. Belperio   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Предметно-об'єктна сфера інституту контролю [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This article considers the chain of the notions: “institution control” - “agent of the Institute of Control” - “subject and object scope of the institute of control”, based on informal and formal content in terms of forming a system concept of the ...
Хмельков, А.В.
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