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20-Apr-2004, 19:37
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| | difference in meaning can you tell me the difference between detention and arrest?
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Originally Posted by LUPITA can you tell me the difference between detention and arrest?
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lupita | When an individual is "arrested", he/she is legally detained for a period of time. This may extend to and through a trial, and longer, if there is a conviction. The detention part may be only temporary, however, if charges are not filed or if bail is posted. "Detention" might also occur in the absence of a true "arrest". A person can be detained as a material witness in a criminal case, for example. | 
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Originally Posted by MikeNewYork Quote: |
Originally Posted by LUPITA can you tell me the difference between detention and arrest?
thanks in advance
lupita | When an individual is "arrested", he/she is legally detained for a period of time. This may extend to and through a trial, and longer, if there is a conviction. The dention part may be only temporary, however, if charges are not filed or if bail is posted. "Detention" might also occur in the absence of a true "arrest". A person can be detained as a material witness in a criminal case, for example. | thanks mike,
but when you say "llegally detained" you means with a warrant and in the case of detention it is not necessary, you can go with a criminal to the police station in order to get some information about his/her name or nationality, so that could be called a detention???
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20-Apr-2004, 22:38
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| | Detaines can have a wider meaning- people can be detained under various non-criminal circumstances. for example, some asylum seekers are held in places while their application is checked. They haven't been arrested and aren't charged, but are not at liberty. | 
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thanks mike,
but when you say "llegally detained" you means with a warrant and in the case of detention it is not necessary, you can go with a criminal to the police station in order to get some information about his/her name or nationality, so that could be called a detention???
thanks again
| I'm not sure what you are asking here. One could call anything that involves an authority keeping a person in custody "detention". | 
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Originally Posted by tdol Detaines can have a wider meaning- people can be detained under various non-criminal circumstances. for example, some asylum seekers are held in places while their application is checked. They haven't been arrested and aren't charged, but are not at liberty.  | A very good example! | 
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| | A common enough one nowadays. | 
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Originally Posted by tdol A common enough one nowadays. |
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