DIRECTLY INTERVENE OR CALL THE AUTHORITIES? A STUDY OF FORMS OF NEIGHBORHOOD SOCIAL CONTROL WITHIN A SOCIAL DISORGANIZATION FRAMEWORK*
DIRECTLY INTERVENE OR CALL THE AUTHORITIES? A STUDY OF FORMS OF NEIGHBORHOOD SOCIAL CONTROL WITHIN A SOCIAL DISORGANIZATION FRAMEWORK*
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直接干预还是致电当局？
DOI：
10.1111/j.1745-9125.2007.00073.x
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发表时间：
2007
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影响因子：
5.8
通讯作者：
B. Warner
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作者：
B. Warner
非正式社会控制是当代社会解体文献中的一个核心概念，许多注意力都集中在研究与社区间非正式社会控制数量变化相关的社区特征上。然而，对非正式社会控制形式的变化给予的注意却少得多。本研究考察了社区特征与居民使用两种不同形式的非正式社会控制的可能性的关系程度：直接非正式社会控制（即通过直接干预）和间接非正式社会控制（即通过动员正式当局）。这项研究的数据是基于对66个社区的居民的调查。该分析使用层次模型来检验当代社会解体理论的核心邻里特征是否对这两种形式的邻里社会控制有相似的影响。研究结果表明，社会关系增加了直接非正式社会控制的可能性，但没有增加间接非正式社会控制的可能性，而社会凝聚力和信任降低了间接非正式社会控制的可能性，但对直接非正式社会控制的影响不显著。对警察的信任并没有影响这两种形式的非正式社会控制。这些发现是在当代社会无序理论的当前问题进行讨论。
Informal social control is a central concept in the contemporary social disorganization literature, and much attention has been directed at examining community characteristics related to variation in the quantity of informal social control across communities. However, considerably less attention has been paid to variation in forms of informal social control. This study examines the extent to which neighborhood characteristics are related to residents’likelihood of using two different forms of informal social control: direct informal social control (i.e., through direct intervention) and indirect informal social control (i.e., through mobilizing formal authorities). Data for this study are based on surveys of residents in 66 neighborhoods. The analysis uses hierarchical modeling to examine whether neighborhood characteristics central to contemporary social disorganization theory have similar effects on these two forms of neighborhood social control. Findings indicate that social ties increase the likelihood of direct informal social control but not indirect informal social control, whereas social cohesion and trust decreases indirect informal social control but does not have a significant effect on direct informal social control. Faith in the police is not found to affect either form of informal social control. These findings are discussed in terms of current issues in contemporary social disorganization theory.