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Prevention Science, 2013
Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention programs that address opportunity or structural factors related to crime are usually delivered to entire cities, sections of cities or to specific neighborhoods, but our results indicate geographically targeting these programs to specific street segments may increase their efficacy. We link crime incidents to
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Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention programs that address opportunity or structural factors related to crime are usually delivered to entire cities, sections of cities or to specific neighborhoods, but our results indicate geographically targeting these programs to specific street segments may increase their efficacy. We link crime incidents to
Elizabeth R. Groff +3 more
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The Impact of Formal and Informal Social Controls on the Criminal Activities of Probationers
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 2002The monthly self-reported criminal activities, risk behaviors, and local life circumstances of offenders who began sentences of probation in northern Virginia were examined during the year prior to arrest, between arrest and probation, and during the first eight months of probation.
Doris Layton MacKenzie, Spencer D. Li
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Interaction effects of formal and social controls on business-to-business performance
Journal of Business Research, 2014Abstract Marketing and Strategy studies have treated relational governance as a critical factor of business-to-business (B2B) performance. Extant studies offer contrasting views on whether formal or social control is a better control mechanism, with little known about their interaction effect.
Jong-Ho Lee, Jae Wook Kim, Jin Hwa Rhee
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Two models of formal social control
Journal of Criminal Justice, 1984In recent years there has been an increasing concern with the link between judicial decisions and the socio-political attributes of the environment in which courts function. Little attention has been paid to the link between attorneys' advice and that same court environment. This study fills the gap. In this paper two models of formal social control
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Drug Diffusion and Social Change: The Illusion about a Formal Social Control
The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 1994Abstract: Evolution of the Italian penal legislation on illicit drugs. The ‘autonomous’ evolution of the spread of drugs and the lack of substantial response to the attempts at legal control. Structural socio‐economic change in the country. The connection between this change and the spread of drugs.
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Correlates of formal and informal social/crime control in China: An exploratory study
Journal of Criminal Justice, 2007Abstract There are two major ways for a society to control its members, formal and informal. A major goal of both forms of control is to curb criminal behavior. Formal criminal justice control uses the law and official government agencies (e.g., police, courts, and corrections) to ensure compliance.
Eric G. Lambert, Shanhe Jiang, Jin Wang
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Racial Disparity in Formal Social Control
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 2008Prior research on racial disparities in arrest rates has been limited by an almost exclusive focus on two explanatory models, an inattention to the mediating processes identified in leading theories, and a relative neglect of nonindex crimes, for which police discretion is greater.
Matthew R. Lee, Graham C. Ousey
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Crime in Cities: The Effects of Formal and Informal Social Control
Crime and Justice, 1986This study examines the structural determinants of robbery and homicide offending in 171 American cities with a population greater than 100,000 in 1980. A macro-level social control model is presented that focuses on the consequences for formal and informal social control of police aggressiveness, jail incarceration risk, state incarceration, and ...
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The Chinese paradigm of global supplier relationships: Social control, formal interactions and the mediating role of culture [PDF]
Industrial Marketing Management, 2012 This paper reports the results of a study that examined how firms can establish successful business relationships with Chinese suppliers. Its aim is to explore salient characteristics of the nature of buyer supplier relationships with the emergence of China as a dominant economic power.
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Collective Sanctions and Compliance Norms: A Formal Theory of Group-Mediated Social Control [PDF]
American Sociological Review, 1990 The link between external sanctions and intragroup normative control is examined to distinguish the conditions under which the two control systems augment or weaken one another. I construct a dynamic rational choice model that incorporates essential features of the sanction/norm link.
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