Concept information
Preferred term
policing
Definition
- Policing involves policy-level attention and approaches to the production and maintenance of public order and safety. This policy orientation toward the goal of public order can be contrasted with the operational or day-to-day focus of law enforcement. [Source: Political Encyclopedia of U.S. States and Regions; Policing]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- anti-social behavior
- arrest clearance
- arrest (policing)
- arrest practices
- auxiliary police
- citizen review
- civilianization
- civilian oversight
- closed circuit television
- community policing
- comparative policing
- COMPSTAT
- confessions
- contractualism (policing)
- counterterrorism
- crime hot spots
- criminal investigation
- cross-border policing
- deadly force
- deaths in custody
- democratic policing
- detective work
- entrapment
- ethical policing
- evidence-based policing
- FBI
- foot patrols
- geographic information systems
- geographic profiling
- harassment by police
- high policing
- homeland security
- homicide investigation
- hot spot policing
- house arrest
- human rights policing
- informants
- intelligence-led policing
- interrogation
- KGB
- killing of police
- law enforcement agencies
- mandatory arrest
- missing persons
- multi-agency policing
- neighborhood watch programs
- net widening
- paramilitary policing
- police accountability
- police agencies
- police alcohol enforcement training
- police and violence
- police attitudes
- police attitudes and behavior
- police communicable disease training
- police conduct
- police corruption
- police court relations
- police culture
- police diversion
- police equipment
- police information systems
- police internal affairs
- police internal organizations
- police leadership
- police legitimacy
- police management
- police manpower deployment
- police misconduct
- police organizations
- police patrols
- police personnel
- police planning
- police privatization
- police procedures
- police property
- police pursuits
- police recruits
- police reform
- police reprimands
- police searches
- police standards
- police statements
- police strategies and operations
- police technology
- police training
- police training and selection
- police training resources
- police unions
- police use of force
- police weapons training
- policing by consent
- policing strategies
- policing systems
- postmodern policing
- private security
- problem-oriented policing
- protective equipment
- public order policing
- race and policing
- racial profiling
- recreational law enforcement
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- rural law enforcement
- saturation policing
- Scotland Yard
- search and seizure
- specialized police operations
- surveillance abuse
- third party policing
- traffic monitoring equipment
- transitional policing
- transnational policing
- vigilantism
- warrants
- women and policing
- zero tolerance policing
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/policing
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