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Honour, Violence, Women and Islam (Paperback)
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Honour, Violence, Women and Islam (Paperback)
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Why are honour killings and honour-related violence (HRV) so
important to understand? What do such crimes represent? And how
does HRV fit in with Western views and perceptions of Islam? This
distinctively comparative collection examines the concept of HRV
against women in general and Muslim women in particular. The issue
of HRV has become a sensitive subject in many South Asian and
Middle Eastern countries and it has received the growing attention
of the media, human rights groups and academics around the globe.
However, the issue has yet to receive detailed academic study in
the United Kingdom, particularly in terms of both legal and
sociological research. This collection sets out the theoretical and
ethical parameters of the study of HRV in order to address this
intellectual vacuum in a socio-legal context. The key objectives of
this book are: to construct, and to develop further, a theory of
HRV; to rationalise and characterise the different forms of HRV; to
investigate the role of religion, race and class in society within
this context, in particular, the role of Islam; to scrutinise the
role of the civil/criminal law/justice systems in preventing these
crimes; and to inform public policy-makers of the potential
policies that may be employed in combating HRV.
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