Social cohesion, mutual efficacy and informal social control: Collective efficacy and community-based crime prevention (Michael C. Gearhart) - The concept of collective efficacy is often used to ...

Informal social control is largely established by the members acquiring the attitudes and behaviours of other members. The process of acquisition may be, to a considerable extent, unconscious.

Social investments to reduce crime must be targeted and focused on increasing informal social controls at crime hot spots. They must be oriented to helping residents of high-crime streets help ...

Drawing on a range of comparative literature from different cities, and using a mixture of classic and contemporary texts, we examine the importance of informal social control in maintaining social ...

The broken windows theory states that visible signs of disorder and misbehavior in an environment encourage further disorder and misbehavior, leading to serious crimes. The principle was developed ...

Informal social networks better at encouraging Hispanics to prepare for disasters. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 8, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2009 / 12 / 091217094903.htm ...