Honour-Based Violence

Question 1

What are typical crimes of HBV?

Answer 1

Murder
Forced marriage
Forced suicide

Question 2

What does this type of crime tend to be about?

Answer 2

Reputation of a woman, ‘dishonour’ to a family/ community

Question 3

Who are the victims?

Answer 3

Young woman (15-25)
Also men if suspected of 'dishonouring' a woman

Question 4

Who are the perpetrators?

Answer 4

Family member (usually more than one)
Boyfriend

Question 5

Why are the community so important?

Answer 5

Put pressure on family to act and restore their status within the community

Question 6

What are typical triggers? (4)

Answer 6

Refusing an arranged marriage
Dating someone not approved of my family/ community
Reporting to police
Loosing virginity

Question 7

What are the characteristics of this crime? (5)

Answer 7

Motivation
Community Pressure
Agnation (patrilineage)
Collaboration
Premeditation

Question 8

What are the problems with HBV for the police? (4)

Answer 8

Relatively unknown
Often no previous violence (hard to predict)
No real religious distribution (ethnic stereotyping can inhibit policing)
Deaths can be seen as suicides due to family solidarity

Question 9

What is the police response? (3)

Answer 9

Multi-agency approach with expert referrals
Prosecute as many as possible (pre-meditated, organised)
DASH: integrated into mainstream assessment