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The article deals with the phenomenon of 'Family Honor Killing' in Mandate Palestine and the manner in which the judicial system of the British Mandate Regime dealt with such crimes.
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Our analysis demonstrates the negotiations that took place between the colonizer and the colonized, and traces the way in which cultural codes of the community came to influence the punishment for 'Family Honor Killings.'
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This page is a summary of: Multiple Voices and the Force of Custom on Punishment: Trial of ‘Family Honor Killings’ in Mandate Palestine, Law and History Review, January 2016, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0738248015000693.
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