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1、JournalofCriminalJustice35(2007)261–271Correlatesofformalandinformalsocial/crimecontrolinChina:Anexploratorystudya,?abShanheJiang,EricLambert,JinWangaDepartmentofCriminalJustice,UniversityofToledo,HH3016,MailStop#119,Toledo,OH43606,UnitedStatesbDepartmentofSociology,Zhongshan,Wu
2、hanUniversity,Wuhan,ChinaAbstractTherearetwomajorwaysforasocietytocontrolitsmembers,formalandinformal.Amajorgoalofbothformsofcontrolistocurbcriminalbehavior.Formalcriminaljusticecontrolusesthelawandofficialgovernmentagencies(e.g.,police,courts,andcorrections)toensurecompliance.I
3、nformalcriminaljusticecontrolusesmoralsandsocialinstitutions(e.g.,family,peers,andneighbors).Chinahasalonghistoryofusinginformalcriminaljusticecontrols.Nevertheless,therehasbeenamovementduringthepastseveraldecadestowardsuseofformalcriminaljusticecontrols.Thisstudyexaminedtheleve
4、lofagreementwithbothformsofcontrolandthecorrelatesofeachformusingasurveyofChinesecollegestudents.FindingsfrommultivariateanalysisindicatedthatthosewhoheldaConfucianbeliefinlawandpunishment,thosewhohadahigherdistrustofstrangers,andthosewhogrewupinruralareasweremoresupportiveofinf
5、ormalcontrol,whilethosewhoweremajoringintheareaoflawandmalerespondentsweremoresupportiveofformalcontrol.?2007ElsevierLtd.Allrightsreserved.Introductionmechanisms(Zhangetal.,1996)andthepublic'sdesireforadifferentkindofpolicingsuchascrimepreventionCrimeisaworldwidephenomenonfoundi
6、neveryandaproactiveapproach(Miller&Hess,2005).Inad-humansociety.Everysocietytriestopreventandcontroldition,budgetconstraintsareleadingmanygovernmentscrime,butdifferentcountriesusedifferentstrategies.Overtofindmoreaffordablealternativestodealwiththesocialthepastfewdecades,Western
7、countrieshaveincreasedproblemofcrime.theirinterestsininformalcrimepreventionandcontrolinUnlikemostWesternnations,Chinahaslongem-boththeoryandpractice,suchascommunitypolicing,phasizedinformalmechanismsincontrollingcrime.Sincerestorativejustice(Braithwaite,2002;VanNess&Strong,theP
8、eople'sRepublicofChina'seconomicreformwhich1997