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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, 2016 Objectives: 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.
Rebecca Wickes +2 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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Reflections on the study of informal social control
Sociologisk Forskning, 2006 Sociologisk Forsknings digitala ...
Robert M Emerson
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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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Social Structure and Informal Social Control in Rural Communities [PDF]
International Journal of Rural Criminology, 2011 The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between social structure and crime in rural counties of the United States. Social structures are assumed to be associated with informal control of crime, and as well, it is assumed that structural changes in rural communities influence changes in the level of informal social control of crime ...
Yuh-Yuh Li
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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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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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Jurnal Aplikasi Bisnis dan Manajemen, 2023 Social security should be mandatory for all members of society to protect them from social risks, including the informal workers who are particularly vulnerable to such risks.
Mohamad Rhesa Adisty +2 more
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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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Crime and delinquency, 2021 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.
E. Sargeant +3 more
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