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  • 4 - Criminalising Disputes and Disputing Criminality

  • Jessica Watkins, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Book:
    Creating Consent in an Illiberal Order
    Published online:
    02 June 2022
    Print publication:
    09 June 2022, pp 92-117

  • Summary

    Police practices substantiate legal abstractions, but frequently the police are influenced by normative frameworks beyond the framework of the civil laws that regulate their work.This chapter examines the interrelationship between Jordan’s tradition of legal pluralism and the hegemonic values that influence different kinds of social order. It also considers how the civil legal system takes account of tribal settlements with respect to the ‘personal right’ accorded to victims, and reviews how the blend of customary, formalised tribal, Islamic and civil legal traditions that co-exist in Jordan shape the field of practice within which the police manage grievances. Frequently exercising discretion, the police treat some of these grievances as crimes, and others as disputes between citizens, reflecting the common reticence of citizens to prosecute cases in the civil courts.