Aim: The purpose of the study is to present one of the prerequisites for maintaining of social order, the desire for justice to prevail, through a social science approach to the concept of order.
Methodology: During the exposition the author separeted the conceptions of order in natural and social sciences, while at the same time pointing out the historical nature of this distinction. Through the ideas of Aristotle, Augustine and Hedley Bull on social order, the author has arrived at the necessary question of justice.
Findings: At a given level of organisation of human communities, the maintenance of (social) order can be ensured by the application of justice in a given historical period.
Value: The unconventional approaches of law enforcement science provide an opportunity to see the forms of behavior raised to the individual and community level, expressed in the life conditions that needed to be regulated, on a border horizon and in deeper contexts. The knowledge acquired in this way is necessary to determine the functioning of institutionalized policing.