policification

English

Etymology

From police +‎ -ification or policify +‎ -ication.

Noun

policification (uncountable)

  1. The act or process of subjecting to police and policing.
    Coordinate term: criminalization
    • 1997, Cultural Studies:
      […] policification of the city. There are 20,000 law enforcement officers in L.A. LAPD's Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums (CRASH) program routinely conducts "field interviews" in which nonwhite youth are forced to  […]
    • 1998, The Guild Practitioner:
      […] policification of every aspect of life in New York City. Under the Giuliani administration, thousands of teenagers have been busted and booked for holding subway doors and sitting on their own stoops. The police have a green light to […]
  2. The act or process of making more police-like.
    • 2006, Nagaioh Manoharan, Counterterrorism Legislation in Sri Lanka: Evaluating Efficacy:
      […] "policification" of the military mandate (Crelinsten 1998: 399–400). A country's armed forces are trained for an external security role and should be used only in emergencies where maximum use of force is needed.
    • 2006, Stan Goff, Sex and War:
      […] "policification" of the military is indicative of any overarching idea to merge. They are adaptive measures, and indicators of the increasing difficulty, and urgency, of urbanized social control. The American troops in Iraq can […]
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