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1 results foundAuthor: Henderson-Ross, Jodi A. Title: Informal Social Control in Action: Neighborhood Context, Social Differentiation, and Selective Efficacy Summary: This dissertation addresses the practice of informal social control in neighborhood settings by integrating extant theory with constructs from outside the mainstream of criminology. Empirical support comes from an ethnographic project conducted over a period of five years in an urban neighborhood setting. Detailed knowledge of this local context is used to frame informal social control as produced and enacted by residents in ways that both reflect and create the larger neighborhood social and cultural dynamics. Specifically, three ethnographic accounts are offered as separate papers to provide different lenses on the neighborhood dynamics. Each account can also be read as demonstrating the variability of ethnographic methodology. Taken together, these empirical papers not only report findings, but also illustrate various aspects of the unfolding process of constructivist grounded theory-building. For example, the first paper highlights how a serendipitous finding gave shape to further data analysis, illustrating the nature of “emergent” findings in grounded theory analysis. The second paper reports findings from more advanced stages of analysis and demonstrates the preliminary stages of theory construction. Finally, the last paper emphasizes the reflexive nature of ethnographic (re)presentation by presenting "findings" in the form of an evocative auto-ethnography. The dissertation contributes to the criminology scholarship by introducing theoretical constructs that have heretofore not been connected directly to practices of informal social control. Moreover, this dissertation is also a statement in support of the integration of more "first-person ethnography" (Venkatesh 2013) into the core of criminology. Future work will continue to build on current scholarship to provide a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between individuals and communities. Details: Akron, OH: University of Akron, 2014. 158p. Source: Internet Resource: Dissertation: Accessed May 31, 2016 at: https://etd.ohiolink.edu/pg_10?0::NO:10:P10_ACCESSION_NUM:akron1395755045 Year: 2013 Country: United States URL: https://etd.ohiolink.edu/pg_10?0::NO:10:P10_ACCESSION_NUM:akron1395755045 Shelf Number: 139244 Keywords: Collective Efficacy Informal Social ControlNeighborhoods and Crime |