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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Informal social control"”.
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he Seems Like a Good Kid Lessons in Informal Social Control from a Midwestern Peer Court Program
… sanctions, which they hoped would provide the informal social control needed to prevent recidivism. Through questioning both offenders and their accompanying parent, we see that these youth were looking to provide sanctions that acted as the missing informal social control agents in the …
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Preventing Crime in Communities: A Critical Analysis of Community Safety in a Lower Income Neighbourhood in Nairobi, Kenya
… research took place in 2015 in Kibera, an informal settlement that is considered to have one of the highest crime rates in the city (SRIC, 2014).<br/><br/>This research identified the main crimes occurring in Kibera to be robbery, stealing, burglary and sexual violence. Community safety …
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Examining Social Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Assessment Using the Work of Bourdieu, Coleman and Putnam
The value that individuals attribute to their social ties with other residents can have an impact on the amount of crime that occurs within their own neighborhood. While previous criminological research has identified a negative relationship between the levels of social capital and victimization …
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… of strain that contributes to the exercise of informal social control. Grounded on these theoretical conceptions, a mixed-method criminological study was conducted, involving an analysis of criminal court verdicts and semi-structured interviews with female prisoners serving a custodial sentence …
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Differential rates of vandalism in a new town: Towards a theory of relative place
… the housing market, macro economics and social and cultural structures. In explaining vandalism no one theory, such as defensible space, will do. We need to take into account a multitude of factors - such as the relative desirability of housing areas, tenants self selection processes, …
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Queer life and moral policing in the time of Hindutva
… Article 2, I present moral policing as a form of informal social control used by non-state actors to enforce and uphold the Hindutva nationalism and gender ideology. Non-state actors such as aunties, shopkeepers and security guards advance the same ideology as state-actors and help formulate and …
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Competencies and problems of poor and non-poor American emerging adults
… mental illness, substance use, academic failure, social problems). Two prominent DLC theories---Moffitt's (1993) Developmental Taxonomy and Sampson and Laub's (1993) Age Graded Theory (AGT) of Informal Social Control---offer differing perspectives on the etiology of offending. Moffitt (1993) …
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Locked Out and Locked Up: Assessing the Relationship Between Housing Instability and Recidivism for People with Criminal Drug Records Using a General Strain Theory Framework
… better understanding the experiences of PCDR, as informal social control - in the form of employment, education, volunteerism, and supportive personal relationships - is associated with a decrease in recidivism. These results suggest that current policy efforts aimed at reducing barriers to …