Book contents
- Creating Consent in an Illiberal Order
- Cambridge Middle East Studies
- Creating Consent in an Illiberal Order
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Transliterations
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Strategic Alliances and Amalgamated Social Orders
- 3 State Policing, from the Ottoman Gendarmerie to the Public Security Directorate
- 4 Criminalising Disputes and Disputing Criminality
- 5 Policing Blood Crimes in the (Neo)Tribal Tradition
- 6 Policing Domestic Abuse
- 7 Community Policing After the Uprisings
- 8 From Neoliberal Securitised Policing Back to the Disputing Process
- Bibliography
- Index
- Books in the Series
6 - Policing Domestic Abuse
Police and Women’s Rights Groups
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 June 2022
- Creating Consent in an Illiberal Order
- Cambridge Middle East Studies
- Creating Consent in an Illiberal Order
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Transliterations
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Strategic Alliances and Amalgamated Social Orders
- 3 State Policing, from the Ottoman Gendarmerie to the Public Security Directorate
- 4 Criminalising Disputes and Disputing Criminality
- 5 Policing Blood Crimes in the (Neo)Tribal Tradition
- 6 Policing Domestic Abuse
- 7 Community Policing After the Uprisings
- 8 From Neoliberal Securitised Policing Back to the Disputing Process
- Bibliography
- Index
- Books in the Series
Summary
Jordan leads the Arab world in its efforts to tackle domestic abuse against women and children. Since 1997 the Family Protection Department in the PSD has forefronted the state’s campaign, albeit with extensive involvement of women’s rights groups, many of which are associated with members of the Royal Family. And yet, extensive public opposition remains to state intervention into the private affairs of the family. In the absence of ‘spontaneous consent’ for the Family Protection Department, the police rely on strategies of power including royal and external patronage, alliances with women’s rights movements, legal strictures and, ultimately, coercion, to undertake their work. The chapter draws on interviews with police officers, lawyers, women’s rights groups as well as societal figures opposed to the initiative.
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- Creating Consent in an Illiberal OrderPolicing Disputes in Jordan, pp. 143 - 174Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022