RT Book
T1 Creating consent in an illiberal order: policing disputes in Jordan
T2 Cambridge Middle East studies
JF Cambridge Middle East studies
A1 Watkins, Jessica 1979-
LA English
PP Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY, USA Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia New Delhi, India Singapore
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1784597996
AB Middle Eastern police forces have a reputation for carrying out repression and surveillance on behalf of authoritarian regimes, despite frequently under enforcing the law. But what is their role in co-creating and sustaining social order? In this book, Jessica Watkins focuses on the development of the Jordanian police institution to demonstrate that rather than being primarily concerned with law enforcement, the police are first and foremost concerned with order. In Jordan, social order combines the influence of longstanding tribal practices with regime efforts to promote neoliberal economic policies alongside a sense of civic duty amongst citizens. Rather than focusing on the 'high policing' of offences deemed to threaten state security, Watkins explores the 'low policing' of interpersonal disputes including assault, theft, murder, traffic accidents, and domestic abuse to shed light on the varied strategies of power deployed by the police alongside other societal actors to procure hegemonic 'consent'.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 213-225, Register
CN HV8242.25.A3
SN 9781009098618
K1 Police : Jordan
K1 Law Enforcement : Jordan
K1 Crime : Jordan
K1 Criminal justice, Administration of : Jordan
K1 Kriminalität : Polizei : Jordanien