Broken Windows, Informal Social Control, and Crime: Assessing Causality in Empirical Studies. [PDF]
Annu Rev Criminol, 2020 An important criminological controversy concerns the proper causal relationships between disorder, informal social control, and crime. The broken windows thesis posits that neighborhood disorder increases crime directly and indirectly by undermining ...
Lanfear CC, Matsueda RL, Beach LR.
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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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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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Defending Others Online: The Influence of Observing Formal and Informal Social Control on One's Willingness to Defend Cyberhate Victims. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2023 This paper examines factors correlated with online self-help—an informal form of social control vis-à-vis intervention—upon witnessing a cyberhate attack. Using online surveys from 18- to 26-year-old respondents in the United States, we explore the roles
Costello M +7 more
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Neighborhood Social Ties and Shared Expectations for Informal Social Control: Do They Influence Informal Social Control Actions? [PDF]
Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 2017 Social disorganization states that neighborhood social ties and shared expectations for informal social control are necessary for the exercise of informal social control actions. Yet this association is largely assumed rather than empirically examined in the literature.
R. Wickes +3 more
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Association between Social Relationship and Glycemic Control among Older Japanese: JAGES Cross-Sectional Study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 AimThe present study examined whether social support, informal socializing and social participation are associated with glycemic control in older people.MethodsData for this population-based cross-sectional study was obtained from the Japan ...
Kenichi Yokobayashi +8 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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Health and Social Care in the community, 2022 Evidence of the protective role of informal social control by community members (family members, friends, and neighbours) in child neglect has received considerable attention.
Alhassan Abdullah +3 more
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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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