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informal social control: a standalone construct

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Criminology

residents' willingness to act directly or by calling authorities to address deviance in their neighborhood, without formal legal sanction.

In criminology, informal social control refers to residents' willingness to act directly or by calling authorities to address deviance in their neighborhood, without formal legal sanction. This meaning comes from Warner (2007) in Criminology.[1]

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References

Warner, B. D. (2007). Directly Intervene or Call the Authorities? a Study of Forms of Neighborhood Social Control Within a Social Disorganization Framework. Criminology, 45(1), 99-129. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-9125.2007.00073.x

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