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Informal social control of sex offenders

, 2017
This essay discusses the role of informal social control for sex offenders who are reentering the community after imprisonment. The essay begins by reviewing the reintegration of sex offenders into communities, noting that they might reintegrate differently than other offenders.
Kimberly R. Kras
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The Age-Graded Theory of Informal Social Control

The Oxford Handbook of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, 2018
This chapter turns to the age-graded theory of informal social control. This theory posits that crime is more likely to occur when an individual's bond to conventional society is weakened.
J. Laub, Zachary R. Rowan, R. Sampson
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Social Cohesion and Informal Social Control as Mediators Between Neighborhood Poverty and Child Maltreatment

Child Maltreatment, 2021
Neighborhoods have profound impacts on children and families. Using structural equation modeling and data from 4,898 children in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, the current study examines the direct and indirect effects of neighborhood ...
K. Maguire-Jack, Susan H. Yoon, Sunghyun Hong   +2 more
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Caregivers' perceptions of informal social control practices to reduce child neglect: A qualitative study in Ghana.

International Journal of Child Abuse & Neglect, 2022
BACKGROUND Rational choice deterrence theory suggests that caregiving behavior, which includes abusive and neglectful behavior, can be influenced or manipulated via informal social control strategies enacted by neighbors, family members and friends in ...
Alhassan Abdullah, Clifton R. Emery
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Dose–Response Relationship Between Protective Family Informal Social Control and Chronic Child Neglect: Does Household Size Matter?

Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2022
Larger households, involving more children, are theorized as potential risk factors for child maltreatment—resource dilution theory. But qualitative evidence shows that in collective societies, like Ghana, more adult family members may act against ...
Alhassan Abdullah, Clifton R. Emery
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Explaining Peer Informal Social Control

, 2016
Barbara J. Costello, T. Hope
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Protective Informal Social Control of Child Maltreatment and Child Abuse Injury in Seoul

Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2015
Clifton R. Emery, T. Eremina, Hyerin Yang, Changgeun Yoo, Ji-Eun Yoo, J. Jang   +5 more
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Beyond Their Absence: Male Intergenerational Social Ties and Community Informal Social Control

, 2020
Objective: Examine the degree to which adult male social ties with neighborhood youth, or intergenerational ties, increase the perceived willingness of residents to engage in the informal social control of children. Method: Survey data from approximately
B. Warner, M. Berg
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Examining Police Presence, Tactics, and Engagement as Facilitators of Informal Social Control in High-Crime Areas

Justice quarterly, 2019
The systemic model of social disorganization advocates that communities can help regulate disorder and crime by exerting informal social control. This paper examines the avenues through which police might contribute to that social process.
Tammy Rinehart Kochel, Jacinta M. Gau
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Neighborhood factors related to the likelihood of successful informal social control efforts

Journal of Criminal Justice, 2014
B. Warner
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