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Examining Police Presence, Tactics, and Engagement as Facilitators of Informal Social Control in High-Crime Areas

Justice quarterly, 2019
The systemic model of social disorganization advocates that communities can help regulate disorder and crime by exerting informal social control. This paper examines the avenues through which police might contribute to that social process.
Tammy Rinehart Kochel, Jacinta M. Gau
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The Age-Graded Theory of Informal Social Control

The Oxford Handbook of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, 2018
This chapter turns to the age-graded theory of informal social control. This theory posits that crime is more likely to occur when an individual's bond to conventional society is weakened.
J. Laub, Zachary R. Rowan, R. Sampson
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Informational influence and informational control models in social networks

Automation and Remote Control, 2011
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Gubanov, D. A.   +2 more
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Mechanisms of Community Control: Informal Social Control and the Activation of Formal Systems of Community Control

Journal of Progressive Human Services
As the role of police officers in our communities comes under increasingly contentious scrutiny, research into the role of neighborhood-level interactions as a means of crime prevention has become increasingly important.
Josh Lown
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Social cohesion, mutual efficacy, and informal social control:Enhancing the conceptualization of collective efficacy

Community Development, 2018
Collective efficacy has been one of the most valuable and influential concepts in neighborhood research of the past 20 years. However, interventions designed to increase collective efficacy report mixed findings, suggesting that there may be a gap ...
Michael C. Gearhart, M. Joseph
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Social control in information systems development

Information Technology & People, 1999
Examines sources of control over information system development decisions. Although past research has examined sources of internal organizational control that were solely determined by technical/rational goals, this article analyzes the symbolic role of social institutions in exerting control over system development decisions.
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Risk of exposure to COVID-19 and informal social control in Hong Kong: The mediating role of social cohesion

Social Forces
:Many strategies for preventing and containing the spread of COVID-19 require wide-scale public cooperation backed by informal social control. Yet, fear of infection may either motivate or impede individuals' willingness to intervene when they observe ...
Donglin Zeng, Xiaogang Wu, Jia Miao
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Social Control in Schools: The Relationships between School Security Measures and Informal Social Control Mechanisms

Journal of School Violence, 2018
Social control and procedural justice theories indicate that informal social control reduces problem behaviors. However, many schools have implemented formal control mechanisms such as school security measures. This study examines the association between
Benjamin W. Fisher   +2 more
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The Informal Social Control of Homicide

The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 1994
(1994). The Informal Social Control of Homicide. The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law: Vol. 26, No. 34, pp. 31-59.
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Informal Payments and Doctor Engagement in an Online Health Community: An Empirical Investigation Using Generalized Synthetic Control

Information systems research, 2023
Recognizing the importance of doctor engagement in online health communities (OHCs), managers and platform owners seek to foster doctor-patient interactions and encourage doctors’ knowledge sharing by introducing informal payments.
Qili Wang, Liangfei Qiu, Wei Xu
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