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Neighborhood Social Ties and Shared Expectations for Informal Social Control: Do They Influence Informal Social Control Actions? [PDF]
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.
John Hipp +2 more
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Reflections on the study of informal social control
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Robert M Emerson
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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.
Vasiljević-Prodanović Danica
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Controlled Sequential Information Fusion With Social Sensors [PDF]
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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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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An Analysis of the Determinants of Informal Employment in Urban and Rural Regions in Iran: Pseudo-Panel Data Approach [PDF]
Informal employment typically poses many problems for communities and governments. For example, most informal workers face problems relating to poverty and economic insecurity due to the lack of a social security organization and labor law in the ...
Shahryar Zaroki +2 more
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Social Resources and Community Resilience in the Wake of Superstorm Sandy. [PDF]
Recovery efforts after natural disasters typically focus on physical infrastructure. In general less attention is paid to the social infrastructure that might impact the capacity of the community to rebuild.
Kathleen A Cagney +3 more
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Informal social control and intimate partner violence [PDF]
Emery et al 1 have conducted an important study to evaluate the protective effects of informal social control on intimate partner violence (IPV). They hypothesised that in China, where IPV prevalence is high and the formal social control of IPV is poor, informal social control might reduce IPV injuries and IPV.
Achini, Jayatilleke +3 more
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Neocortical structures of the left frontal lobe, middle frontal gyrus (MFG) in particular, have been suggested to be linked to the processing of punishing and unpleasant outcomes in decision tasks.
Beatriz Martín-Luengo +4 more
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Controllability of social networks and the strategic use of random information [PDF]
This work is aimed at studying realistic social control strategies for social networks based on the introduction of random information into the state of selected driver agents. Deliberately exposing selected agents to random information is a technique already experimented in recommender systems or search engines, and represents one of the few options ...
M. Cremonini, F. Casamassima
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