An Exploratory Study of Honor Crimes in the United States

Hayes, Brittany E.; Freilich, Joshua D.; Chermak, Steven M.

doi:10.1007/s10896-016-9801-7

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“…While significant gender differences were not reported in this and other studies with comparable diasporic British Asians populations (e.g., Khan, Saleem, & Lowe, 2017), they do indicate that in collectivist communities that have migrated from Asia, there is a degree of acceptance for using HBV against females who break honor-codes (Brandon u r n a l o f A g g r e s s i o n , C o n f l i c t a n d P e a c e R e s e a r c h 10 & Hafez, 2010). This has wide-reaching implications for the perpetuation of intimate partner HBV globally (Hayes, Freilich, & Chermak, 2016).…”

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“…To see if the current findings can be replicated, future research could recruit to compare the attitudes of multiple-samples of participants from a number of collectivist cultures, including those from the Middle East and South Asia (Eisner & Ghuneim, 2013;Vandello, 2016). There is also scope for cross-cultural studies to compare attitudes towards intimate partner HBV in collectivist cultures (with both native and diasporic populations) with individualist cultures where HBV has been reported in Europe, such as Germany (Grzyb, 2016), Finland (Keskinen, 2009), Sweden (Wikan, 2008), and across North America (Chelser, 2009;Hayes et al, 2016). The current findings permit a more nuanced understanding of the role of culture in the acceptance of intimate partner HBV.…”

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Attitudes toward intimate partner “honor”-based violence in India, Iran, Malaysia and Pakistan

Lowe

Khan

Thanzami

et al. 2018

JACPR

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Purpose Although intimate partner violence (IPV) and “honor”-based violence (HBV) are major concerns throughout the world, little research has investigated the acceptance of these forms of abuse outside of the West. The purpose of this paper is to therefore respond to this gap in the literature by exploring attitudes toward HBV in a fictional depiction of IPV across four Asian samples: India, Iran, Malaysia and Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach Participants (n=579) read a hypothetical scenario in which a husband, despite his own marital infidelity, verbally abuses and physically assaults his wife after discovering that she has been unfaithful. Participants then completed a questionnaire that assessed perceptions of damage to the husband’s honor, approval of intimate partner HBV against the wife, and perceptions of both the victim-wife and the perpetrator-husband. Findings The findings revealed that more males than females, across all four nations, were endorsing of honor-adhering attitudes in response to the perceived threat to the husband’s reputation resulting from the wife’s infidelity. Additionally, of the four samples, Pakistani participants were the most approving and Malaysians least endorsing of honor-adhering attitudes. Originality/value The results are discussed in relation to studies of honor-adherence in Asian populations. This study provides an original glimpse into the perceptions of intimate partner HBV in these not-often sampled nationalities.

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Attitudes toward intimate partner “honor”-based violence in India, Iran, Malaysia and Pakistan

Lowe

Khan

Thanzami

et al. 2018

JACPR

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“…Despite the discussion about how to define HBV, there is a growing body of research on this type of violence, the most common being surveys or legal documents studies (Bates 2017;Hayes et al 2016;Schlytter and Linell 2010), but there are also some small qualitative interview studies with female victims (Blum et al 2016;Author 2012). The most common and significant aspect of this body of research is the victims' extraordinarily vulnerable situation.…”

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“…Thus, honor and norms of honor have different meanings in different societies and in different social and cultural contexts. Moreover, the concepts change over time (Ertürk 2009;Hayes et al 2016). In societies with an honor-based value system, honor refers to Bthe regulation of women's sexuality and their conformity with social norms and traditions^ (Gill 2014, p. 2).…”

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Honor-Based Violence in Sweden – Norms of Honor and Chastity

Björktomta

2019

J Fam Viol

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This article investigates the nature of honor-related domestic violence as experienced by 11 young female victims (aged 16-20) with non-Swedish-born parents. It examines what forms of violence are involved and how they are related to each other and looks at the differences and similarities to non-honor-related domestic violence. Qualitative, individual interviews were made with young women who, when in contact with counselors, mid-wives or social workers, said that they were living with restrictions over their social life and sexuality with some level of control imposed by another person. Accordingly, it is young women's subjective assessment of their experience which defined their inclusion in this study. The analysis has been a recursive process with a theory-oriented approach that uses Bourdieu's concept of symbolic violence as a theoretical lens. The participants belonged to patriarchal families in a particular cultural/religious community and lived under various types of coercive control. For the participants, the core concept of the family norms was twofold: honor and firm demands for chastity. There was a strong link between the restrictions they experienced and their vulnerability to various forms of violence, alongside accounts of strong emotional ties between father and daughter, in most cases. The participants' scope for action was affected irrespective of they were physically abused or not. The findings contribute to an initial understanding of how nonviolent controlling behaviors affect young women's scope for action and highlight daughters' vulnerable situation in a patriarchal family.

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