Chapter
Crimes of honour, crimes of passion
Crimes of honour and Muslim and minority communities
Playing for the other side
Strategising responses and creating alternatives
1. United Nations approaches to ‘crimes of honour’
United Nations work on violence against women
2. ‘Crimes of honour’, value and meaning
3. The role of ‘community discourse’ in combating ‘crimes of honour’: preliminary assessment and prospects
‘Crimes of honour’ and the state
Sexuality, family and community
‘Crimes of honour’ as human rights violations
Towards a ‘community discourse’ approach
4. ‘Honour killings’ and the law in Pakistan
The historical, social and legal context
Post-1990: a new law but the problems deepen
Recent trends: a more positive direction?
The state’s failure to utilise discretion positively
5. Murders of women in Lebanon:‘crimes of honour’ between reality and the law
‘Crimes of honour’ in Lebanon
The concept of ‘crime of honour’ in Lebanese law
Legal analysis of the research sample
Social analysis of the research sample
6. ‘Crimes of honour’ as violence against women in Egypt
Crimes of honour in Egypt
Crimes of honour and the law
Crimes of honour and court rulings
Crimes of honour in the press
Strategies of response: together against crimes of violence and ‘honour crimes’
7. Researching women’s victimisation in Palestine: a socio-legal analysis
Conceptualising domestic violence
8. Culture, national minority and the state: working against the ‘crime of family honour’ within the Palestinian community in Israel
The Palestinian community: from taboo to opposition
9. Changing the rules? Developments on ‘crimes of honour’ in Jordan
10. Honour-based violence among the Kurds: the case of Iraqi Kurdistan
Against the tide: the voices of Kurdish women
11. ‘Crimes of honour’ in the Italian Penal Code: an analysis of history and reform
The idea of ‘honour’ in Italian law and society
‘Honour killing’, Article 587 of the Rocco Code
Relevance of the cause of honour in other provisions of the Rocco Code
12. The ‘legitimate defence of honour’, or murder with impunity? A critical study of legislation and case law in Latin America
‘Crimes of honour’ in Latin America: overview
The Brazilian legal context
13. ‘There is no “honour” in domestic violence, only shame!’ Women’s struggles against ‘honour’ crimes in the UK
From forced marriage to honour killings
‘Mature multiculturalism’
Reinventing old ‘solutions’
Negotiating the space between race and gender
From honour killings to domestic violence?
14. Of consent and contradiction: forced marriages in Bangladesh
Legal provisions informing marriage practices in Bangladesh
Theoretical analysis of forced marriage
Analysis of legal remedies
Conclusion: patriarchal complicities and possible remedies
15. From fathers to husbands: of love, death and marriage in North India
Prologue: a late beginning
The social and ideological context of violence of choice marriages: the notion of izzat in North India
The criminal justice system in action
The law in action: making sense of the judicial ‘mind’
Making a difference: the importance of support
By way of an interim conclusion
16. Tackling forced marriages in the Nordic countries: between women’s rights and immigration control