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arrest practices  

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  • Arrest, the first formal procedure in the criminal justice process, occurs when a police officer takes a person into custody for having allegedly committed a criminal offense. Quite literally, it means that the person arrested can no longer move about freely. [Source: Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment; Arrest Practices]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-MV02RJJS-S

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