This article examines the relationship between police officers and women who claim the status of victims of domestic violence in Portugal. The text proposes a reading of Law and rights in light of theories of human intersubjectivity. This line of interpretation highlights the social construction of a grammar of disempowerment and the re-privatization of pain, with significant variation between distinct encounters.
Policing; Domestic Violence; Rights; Disempowerment; Intersubjectivity; Sociality