Abstract

Review 1 of "Policing Perspectives Concerning Confusion and Uncertainty in Policing Practices with 'Honour'-Based Crimes and Forced Marriages"

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  • [For votes to count, referees must reasonably explain why they voted as they did

  • In the Netherlands I combine my work as a professor of Anthropology of Law with my job at the Dutch police, where I hold a position as head of research of the National Centre of Expertise on Honour-based Violence of the Dutch National Police Force

  • Based on my experience working for the Dutch police, I would like to make some suggestions to the author for further elaboration

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Summary

Janine Janssen

Review 1 of "Policing Perspectives Concerning Confusion and Uncertainty in Policing Practices with 'Honour'-Based Crimes and Forced Marriages. I enjoyed reading this paper for several reasons First of all, it is an import subject: a lot of people suffer from crimes committed in the name of the (so-called) honour of the family. The core category identified in the material collected by the author is ‘confusion and uncertainty in policing practices’. Within that category she identified three themes 1) Inconsistency in the Use of Terminology; 2) Police Perceptions of Training; and 3) Police Understandings of FM and Perspectives on the Barbaric Cultural Practices Bill to Criminalize It

Regarding terminology
Regarding training and the need of blueprints
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