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police discretion: a standalone construct

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officers' largely invisible decisions about whether to arrest or invoke the law, made outside formal review.

In policing, police discretion refers to officers' largely invisible decisions about whether to arrest or invoke the law, made outside formal review. This meaning comes from Goldstein (1960) in The Yale Law Journal.[1]

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Goldstein, J. (1960). Police Discretion Not to Invoke the Criminal Process: Low-Visibility Decisions in the Administration of Justice. The Yale Law Journal, 69(4), 543. https://doi.org/10.2307/794445

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