Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain.
A law enforcement strategy focusing on deterring crime before it happens through visible patrolling, known as walking the 'beat'.
Preventative policing appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for Crime and Punishment in Britain and Whitechapel, especially Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain and Case Studies: Pentonville Prison and Robert Peel.
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