What is it about?
How is 'honour'-based violence different from other forms of violence against women? I worked with casefiles of women accessing help through a charity in order to draw out the characteristics of different types of crime against them. I found that in crimes that the victims related to 'honour', the perpetrators were relatives of the victim. Often these cases involved more than one perpetrator.
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Why is it important?
Accounting for the possibility of multiple perpetrators is an important factor in risk management, making such cases more complicated than those with a single perpetrator.
Perspectives
I first did this as a purely definitional exercise in order to get at what victims mean by the term 'honour', then added the risk assessment level later.
Dr Joanne L Payton
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This page is a summary of: “Honor,” Collectivity, and Agnation, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, March 2014, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0886260514527171.
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