Policing community problems: Exploring the role of formal social control in shaping collective efficacy [PDF]
Research finds police-led crime control interventions focusing on places and involving partnerships tend to yield positive crime control outcomes. Some scholars argue that these positive outcomes are achieved when police use place-based, partnership-oriented interventions to facilitate and encourage collective efficacy (CE), the corollary being that ...
Sargeant, Elise+2 more
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Formal and modelling frameworks for Social Holonic Control Architectures
For decades now, manufacturing systems have grown in size and complexity. Between new consumption habits and hypercompetitive markets, manufacturing systems have started a race towards the industry of the future. Still, many technological and societal issues are paving their way: connectivity, resilience and human integration being among the most ...
Valette, Etienne+3 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]
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.
Elise Sargeant+3 more
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Social Choice and Popular Control [PDF]
In democracies citizens are supposed to have some control over the general direction of policy. According to a pretheoretical interpretation of this idea, the people have control if elections and other democratic institutions compel officials to do what ...
Ingham, Sean
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Attention control comparisons with SLT for people with aphasia following stroke: methodological concerns raised following a systematic review [PDF]
Objective: Attention control comparisons in trials of stroke rehabilitation require care to minimize the risk of comparison choice bias. We compared the similarities and differences in SLT and social support control interventions for people with aphasia.
Brady, Marian C.+5 more
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Post-Socialist Anomie Through the Lens of Economic Modernization and the Formalization of Social Control [PDF]
This paper inquires into how economic modernization impacts normative regulation by spurring, on the one hand (a) formal media of normative regulation (also known as formal social control) in the spheres of politics, economics and interpersonal relations and, on the other hand, (b) informality via the lower density of norms (also known as anomie). This
Christopher Swader, Leon Kosals
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Economic Games Quantify Diminished Sense of Guilt in Patients with Damage to the Prefrontal Cortex [PDF]
Damage to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC) impairs concern for other people, as reflected in the dysfunctional real-life social behavior of patients with such damage, as well as their abnormal performances on tasks ranging from moral judgment ...
Adolphs, Ralph+4 more
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Managing Cartels: how Cartel Participants Create Stability in the Absence of law [PDF]
Firms enter cartels (e.g. price-fixing; bid-rigging) in order to control market uncertainties and gain collusive profits, but face challenges in controlling the cartel itself.
Jaspers, J.D.
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Reintegrative shaming: Informal means of formal social control of crime [PDF]
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. The informal means of social control grow themselves in society, and are considered very powerful, especialy
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Discrimination, social capital, and financial constraints: the case of Viet Nam [PDF]
This paper examines the relationship among gender, social capital, and access to finance of micro, small,and medium enterprises in the manufacturing sector in Viet Nam.
Ahl+86 more
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