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Say NOPE to social disorganization criminology: the importance of creators in neighborhood social control

Crime Science, 2022
Despite decades of research into social disorganization theory, criminologists have made little progress developing community programs that reduce crime.
Shannon J. Linning, Ajima Olaghere, J. Eck   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

How to promote informal learning in the workplace? The need for incremental design methods

, 2017
Informal Learning in the Workplace (ILW) is ensured by the everyday work activities in which workers are engaged. It accounts for over 75 per cent of learning in the workplace.
Marty, Jean-Charles, Michel, Christine, Touré, Carine   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Legacies of Wartime Order: Punishment Attacks and Social Control in Northern Ireland

Security Studies, 2021
Many armed groups create informal institutions to maintain social order during conflict. The remnants of these informal institutions form a key challenge for governments in postconflict societies in their attempts to reestablish themselves as credible ...
K. Rickard, Kristin M. Bakke
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Family-to-family child migration network of informal adoption in China

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2020
Historically, informal adoption has been a prevalent Chinese social phenomenon that has altered typical family structures and the lives of children. Due to ambiguous definitions and the scarcity of data on informal adoption, the patterns and processes of
Xueyao Ma, Gang Li, Junjun Zhou, Xing Gao, Qifan Nie, Shuyan Xue, Ling Liu, Jiaobei Wang, Tingting Xu, Annan Jin   +9 more
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Exploring Community Based Responses and the Natural History of a Drug Market

Social Work and Society, 2015
Previous studies portray open drug market neighborhoods as uniformly poor, urban, socially disorganized, with weak informal social control. Further, open drug market neighborhoods appear sui genesis.
Wes Abercrombie, Mitchell Mackinem
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The Impact of Cancel Culture on Politics and International Relations

Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2023
The article aims to reveal particularities of cancel culture in politics and international relations using methods of sociology and conflict theory. Deriving from previous research of cancel culture, authors define cancel culture as non-institutionalized
L. V. Deriglazova, A. M. Pogorelskaya
doaj   +1 more source

Choice in the context of informal care-giving [PDF]

, 2007
Extending choice and control for social care service users is a central feature of current English policies. However, these have comparatively little to say about choice in relation to the informal carers of relatives, friends or older people who are ...
Allen I., Appleby J., Arksey H., Audit Commission, Bell J., Cabinet Office, Carers National Association, Caring Costs Alliance, Clarke J., Commission for Social Care Inspection, Department for Work and Pensions, Department of Health, Department of Health, Department of Health, Dowding K., Ellis K., Giddens A., Hadley R., Hasler F., Hirsch C.H., Howard M., Joshi H., Kagan C., Klein R., Larkin J.P., Lent A., Levin E., Macgregor G., Mayo E., McLaughlin E., Minichiello V., Mooney A., Morris J., Morris J., Myers F., Needham C., Nolan M., Parker G., Parker G., Parry J., Penrod J., Pickard L., Pickard L., Princess Royal Trust for Carers, Qureshi H., Royal Commission on Long Term Care, Schwartz B., Scottish Executive, Scourfield P., Seddon D., Seddon D., Shakespeare T., Tilse C., Twigg J., Twigg J., Twigg J., Vernon A., Welsh Assembly Government   +57 more
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Problems, perceptions and actions: An interdependent process for generating informal social control.

Social Science Research, 2018
Using two waves of survey data for residents in neighborhoods in Brisbane, this study explores the interdependent relationship between residents' perceptions of neighboring, cohesion, collective efficacy, neighborhood disorder, and the actions they take ...
John R. Hipp, R. Wickes
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Microengineered Gradient Hydrogels for Mechanobiology

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Gradient hydrogels are used to mimic the mechanical heterogeneity in native tissues, offering powerful in vitro platforms to study cell‐material interactions in diverse pathophysiological contexts. Here, we present a comprehensive review of the design and experimental considerations for stiffness gradient hydrogels, discussing exemplary achievements ...
Shin Wei Chong, Deepu Ashok, Anna Waterhouse, Marcela M. M. Bilek, Daniele Vigolo   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Feasibility and effectiveness of a telephone-based social support intervention for informal caregivers of people with dementia: Study protocol of the TALKING TIME project

BMC Health Services Research, 2017
Background Caring for people with dementia at home requires a significant amount of time, organization, and commitment. Therefore, informal caregivers, mainly relatives, of people with dementia often feel a high burden.
Martin Berwig, Martin Nikolaus Dichter, Bernd Albers, Katharina Wermke, Diana Trutschel, Swantje Seismann-Petersen, Margareta Halek   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source