History GCSE
Government and law enforcement
What Government and law enforcement means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Government and law enforcement
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Records of crimes and high-level police investigations, including Home Office files, reveal the government's response to policing challenges.
Topics that use Government and law enforcement
- Option 10: The historic environment - 2 Knowledge, selection and use of sources for historical enquiries (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Evidence selection
- Historical enquiry
- Provenance (Nature, Origin, Purpose)
- Public opinion and the press
- Satire and visual evidence
- Source evaluation
- Contextual knowledge
- Open-ended questions
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