'Honour' Killing and Violence

Acknowledgements Foreword; Professor Lynn Welchman Notes on the Contributors 1. Introduction: 'Honour' and 'Honour'-based Violence: Challenging Common Assumptions; Aisha K. Gill PART I: CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS 2. Domestic Violence or Cultural Tradition? Approaches to 'Honour Killing' as Species and Sub-species in English Legal Practice; Rupa Reddy 3. Adjusting the Lens of Honour-based Violence: Perspectives from Euro-American History; Carolyn Strange 4. Towards a Psychologically Oriented Motivational Model of Honour Based Violence; Karl Roberts 5. Honour as Property; Johanna Bond 6. (Dis)honour, Death and Duress in the Courtroom; Jocelynne A. Scutt PART II: OPERATIONALISING PRACTICES OF HONOUR AND VIOLENCE 7. Conceptualising HBV in Scandinavian Law Enforcement; Anja Bredal 8. 'If there were no khaps, …everything will go haywire…young boys and girls will start marrying into the same gotra'- Understanding khap-directed Honour Killings in North India; Suruchi Thapar-Björkert 9. 'All they think about is honour': The Murder of Shafilea Ahmed; Aisha K. Gill 10. Same Problem, Different Solutions: The Case of 'honour killing' in Germany and Britain; Selen Ayirtman Ercan 11. No Place in Canada': Triumphant Discourses, Murdered Women, and the 'Honour Crime'; Dana Mohammed Olwan