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police organizations  

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  • Policing as a process of social regulation within industrialized societies is carried out by many organizations. The police organization is quite another matter, and typically people confuse policing, law enforcement, and the police organization. [Source: Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment; Police Organizations]

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