''Honour'' Killing and Violence : Theory, Policy and Practice
Aisha. K. Gill
Bok Engelsk 2014 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Basingstoke : : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (265 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Note on Contributors; 1 Introduction: 'Honour' and 'Honour'-Based Violence: Challenging Common Assumptions; Part I: Conceptual Frameworks; 2 Domestic Violence or Cultural Tradition? Approaches to 'Honour Killing' as Species and Subspecies in English Legal Practice; 3 Adjusting the Lens of Honour-Based Violence: Perspectives from Euro-American History; 4 Towards a Psychologically Oriented Motivational Model of Honour-Based Violence; 5 Honour as Familial Value; 6 (Dis)honour, Death and Duress in the Courtroom. - 11 'No Place in Canada': Triumphant Discourses, Murdered Women and the 'Honour Crime'Index. - Part II: Operationalising/Practices of Honour and Violence7 Ordinary v. Other Violence? Conceptualising Honour-Based Violence in Scandinavian Public Policies; 8 'If there were no khaps [ . . . ] everything will go haywire [ . . . ] young boys and girls will start marrying into the same gotra': Understanding Khap-Directed 'Honour Killings' in Northern India; 9 'All they think about is honour': The Murder of Shafilea Ahmed; 10 Same Problem, Different Solutions: The Case of 'Honour Killing' in Germany and Britain. - <p >In this interdisciplinary collection leading experts and scholars from criminology, psychology, law and history provide a compelling analysis of practices and beliefs that lead to violence against women, men and children in the name ''honour''.
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| ISBN | 9781137289544. - 9781137289551
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