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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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Social Structure and Informal Social Control in Rural Communities [PDF]
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]
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]
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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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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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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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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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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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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