Informal Social Control

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Informal social control, or the reactions of individuals and groups that bring about conformity to norms and laws, includes peer and community pressure, bystander intervention in a crime, and collective responses such as citizen patrol groups (Conklin, 2007). The agents of the criminal justice system exercise more control when informal social control is weaker (Black, 1976).