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Guardianship and Informal Social Control

2018
Abstract This article provides a critical overview of the concepts of guardianship and informal social control. The discussion compares these fundamental criminological concepts and highlights areas where there is overlap, as well as key points of departure.
D. Reynald
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RACIALLY HOMOPHILOUS SOCIAL TIES AND INFORMAL SOCIAL CONTROL

Criminology, 2015
Social disorganization theory argues that racial/ethnic heterogeneity is a key neighborhood characteristic leading to social disorganization and, consequently, higher levels of crime. Heterogeneity's effect is argued to be a result of its fragmentation of social ties along racial/ethnic lines, which creates racially homophilous social networks with few
BARBARA D. WARNER, KRISTIN SWARTZ, SHILA RENÉ HAWK   +2 more
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Informal Social Control and Crime Events

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 2014
Informal social control at micro-level places such as addresses, collections of addresses, and streetblocks is a critical factor in understanding crime patterns. Historically, informal social control has been associated with community-level theories such as social disorganization, systemic theory, and collective efficacy.
Elizabeth R. Groff
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The Road to Desistance: The Relationship between Formal Institutions of Social Control, Informal Social Bonds, and Intermittency in Offending

Deviant Behavior, 2023
The current study examines the relationship between formal social control, informal social bonds, and intermittency in offending. Using data from a Canadian population who have been formally flagged as representing a disproportionate risk to public ...
T. Humphrey, Grace Li, Erin Gibbs Van Brunschot   +2 more
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Social Cohesion and Informal Social Control as Mediators Between Neighborhood Poverty and Child Maltreatment

Child Maltreatment, 2021
Neighborhoods have profound impacts on children and families. Using structural equation modeling and data from 4,898 children in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, the current study examines the direct and indirect effects of neighborhood ...
K. Maguire-Jack, Susan H. Yoon, Sunghyun Hong   +2 more
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Caregivers' perceptions of informal social control practices to reduce child neglect: A qualitative study in Ghana.

International Journal of Child Abuse & Neglect, 2022
BACKGROUND Rational choice deterrence theory suggests that caregiving behavior, which includes abusive and neglectful behavior, can be influenced or manipulated via informal social control strategies enacted by neighbors, family members and friends in ...
Alhassan Abdullah, Clifton R. Emery
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Neighborhood factors related to the likelihood of successful informal social control efforts

Journal of Criminal Justice, 2014
Barbara D Warner
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Tourist misbehavior: Psychological closeness to fellow consumers and informal social control

, 2021
The challenge of tourist misbehavior has drawn increasing attention from academic researchers and practitioners in the hospitality and tourism sector.
L. Wan, M. Hui, Y. Qiu
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