Correlates of Formal and Informal Social Control on Crime Prevention: An Exploratory Study among University Students, Andhra Pradesh, India

Lambert, Eric G.; Jaishankar, K.; Jiang, Shanhe; Pasupuleti, Sudershan; Bhimarasetty, Jagadish V.

doi:10.1007/s11417-011-9108-9

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“…he variables gender, age, and education are often included as demographic characteristics in the extant studies (Jiang et al 2010a ; Jiang et al 2010b ; Jiang et al 2012 ; Jiang et al 2014 ; Lambert et al 2012a ; Lambert et al 2012b ). Following suit, this study also included them.…”

Section: Three Forms Of Social Control Their Importance and Predictmentioning

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Semiformal Organizations and Control During the COVID-19 Crisis in China

2020

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Scholars often compare China and Western societies in terms of dichotomous forms of control—formal and informal. Recent research indicates a nuanced form of social control—semiformal. Using a survey data collected during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in China, this study investigated the prevalence and importance of semiformal organizations, formal organizations, and informal groups participating in social control and social service and the predictors of the perceived importance of these three forms of social control mechanisms. Findings from this study revealed that formal organizations, the semiformal organizations, and informal groups all participated in community control and service. Semiformal organizations had the highest level of participation. This study found that education and age are the two major predictors of the views on the importance of formal, informal, and semiformal control and control mechanisms.

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Section: Three Forms Of Social Control Their Importance and Predictmentioning

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2020

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“…First, a number of studies examine the routes of action that people and agencies take toward controlling crime. We know that there is variation between formal and informal social control (Bursik and Grasmick 1993;Lambert et al 2011;Sampson 1986), between direct and indirect paths to crime discouragement (Bernburg and Krohn 2003;Rankin and Wells 1990;Wells and Rankin 1988), between willful and accidental crime prevention (Felson 1995;Hollis-Peel et al 2011), and between private and public interventions (Bursik 1999(Bursik , 2000Warner 2007;Wilkinson 2007).…”

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Putting process into routine activity theory: Variations in the control of crime opportunities

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Mazerolle

2017

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This paper extends the basic tenets of routine activity theory by explicating three unique mechanisms that influence crime prevention actions: relationality, relativity, and responsibility. We assess how macro variations in crime opportunities influence the social processes associated with readiness for three crime control actions: offender handling, target guarding, and place managing. We explore the utility of these theoretical advancements using multilevel survey data from the Australian Community Capacity Study (ACCS) that includes 4390 residents across 148 suburbs in the Greater City of Brisbane. Incorporating individual measures of perceptions of routine activity dynamics and community-level measures of social structure, we use multilevel mixed-effects ordinal logistic regression to explain variations in the three different crime control actions. We find moderate support that some social processes are more strongly paired with some types of crime control actions than others: relationality most strongly predicts offender handling, relativity is most significantly associated with target guarding, and responsibility is most influential for place managing. We argue that the routine activities of crime can be better understood by delineating the social processes of crime prevention, and that these should be modeled on a continuum and considered in context of community variations in social structures.

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“…Though securing lives and property is the function of the government, civilians may also play a significant role in securing the community (Kasali − Odetola, 2016). Crime and deviance are prevented and controlled in varying ways in cultures around the world (Lambert, Jaishankar, Jiang, Pasupuleti, and Bhimarasetty, 2012). In England, during the early stages of societal development, the function of crime prevention and control was performed by members of various communities (Salter, 2014).…”

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“…According to Potter (2013), prior to the present formal method of policing there existed informal community-based policing (known as the "Watch"), in which volunteers were responsible for policing communities. During the precolonial period, Indian communities were also policed through informal indigenous methods (Lambert, et al 2012). In Africa, Baker (2008) affirmed the use of informal methods of crime control and sanctioning of offenders.…”

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Indigenous policing and criminal justice administration: A study of Okposi community in Ohaozara local government area, Ebonyi

Osisiogu

Mmahi²

2020

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This study explores autochthonous methods of policing and law enforcement in the community, and the perception of indigenes of the efficacy of these methods. Qualitative methods were adopted, involving the use of in-depth interview technique with indigenes: namely, members of a youth forum, community leaders, and elders. Findings show that offences in Okposi community may be classified into two types: abominations, and torts, while the indigenous crime prevention and control structure involves Ndi Uke (a community male elders' council), Unyom Okposi (a council of female elders), Ndi Okenye (village elders' council), and Ndi Okorobia (youths). Fear of the inevitability of spiritual consequences from the gods appears to be a good source of crime deterrence. Traditional methods of policing were deemed more effective in relation to crime control. It is recommended that the Nigerian police should continue to take advantage of cordial relationships with the community to enhance peace, security, and justice.

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Correlates of Formal and Informal Social Control on Crime Prevention: An Exploratory Study among University Students, Andhra Pradesh, India

Cited by 13 publications

References 5 publications

Semiformal Organizations and Control During the COVID-19 Crisis in China

Semiformal Organizations and Control During the COVID-19 Crisis in China

Putting process into routine activity theory: Variations in the control of crime opportunities

Indigenous policing and criminal justice administration: A study of Okposi community in Ohaozara local government area, Ebonyi

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