Detention

Detention may refer to:

• Detention (confinement), the restriction of liberty of someone suspected or accused of a crime
• Detention basin, an artificial flow control structure that is used to contain flood water for a limited period of time
• Immigration detention, imprisonment of an unauthorised person entering a country
• Preventive detention, detention intended to prevent criminal acts
• Remand (detention), the keeping in custody of an arrested person awaiting adjudication
• School detention, a form of punishment used in schools

• Detention (2003 film), an American action film directed by Sidney J. Furie
• Detention (2010 film), an American horror film starring Preston Jones and David Carradine
• Detention (2011 film), an American horror film directed by Joseph Kahn and starring Josh Hutcherson
• Detention (2019 film), a Taiwanese horror film set during the White Terror, based on the video game of the same name
• Detention (American TV series), a 1999–2000 American animated TV series
• Detention (Taiwanese TV series), a 2020 Taiwanese TV series based on the video game
• "Detention" ( Cold Case episode), a 2006 television episode
• "Detention" ( Dawson's Creek), a 1998 television episode

• Detention (video game), a Taiwanese horror game set during the White Terror
• "Detention", a song by Melanie Martinez from her 2019 album K-12
• Detention, Tasmania, a locality in Australia

• Custody (disambiguation)
• Detention center (disambiguation)
• Detonation (disambiguation)
• Involuntary commitment
• Prison