Concept information
Preferred term
third-party policing
Definition
- Third-party policing encompasses a variety of pressures applied against nominally respectable citizens to enhance informal social controls. In its broadest forms, third-party policing invokes civil processes and other sanctions against place managers to compel participation in police-directed anti-crime initiatives. [Source: Encyclopedia of Victimology and Crime Prevention; Third-Party Policing]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/third-party_policing
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