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  2. Honor killing - Wikipedia

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    An honor killing (American English), honour killing (Commonwealth English), or shame killing [1] is a traditional form of murder in which a person is killed by or at the behest of members of their family or their partner, due to culturally sanctioned beliefs that such homicides are necessary as retribution for the perceived dishonoring of the ...

  3. Honor killings by region - Wikipedia

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    A 2009 study by Muazzam Nasrullah et al. reported a total of 1,957 honor crime victims reported in Pakistan's newspapers from 2004 to 2007. [224] Of those killed, 18% were below the age of 18 years, and 88% were married. Husbands, brothers, and close relatives were direct perpetrators of 79% of the honor crimes reported by mainstream media.

  4. Honor killing in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Around 2017, City University of New York John Jay College of Criminal Justice professor Ric Curtis led a team that analyzed honor killing statistics from Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom and made a proxy estimate for the United States based on that, resulting in an estimated 23–27 annual honor killings in the U.S.

  5. Murder of Banaz Mahmod - Wikipedia

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    "Love Like Blood" (2017), from the Tom Thorne crime series by author Mark Billingham was inspired by Banaz's story and is dedicated to the memory of both her and Rahmat Sulemani. [ 50 ] [ 51 ] A two-part drama, Honour , chronicles the investigation into the murder of Banaz.

  6. From honor student to prison, repeat offender begs federal ...

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    The man seen holding the gun is Joshua Fordham,30, who held up two victims three months after being released from parole in a similar crime. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison on May 29, 2024.

  7. Crime of passion - Wikipedia

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    Crimes of passion and honor killings often have similar triggers, particularly related to the sexual behavior (real or imaginary) of the victim, such as extramarital sex, premarital sex or homosexuality; and there have been accusations that the Western media creates artificial differentiation between the 'foreign' forms of domestic violence ...

  8. Culture of honor (Southern United States) - Wikipedia

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    Roth also shows that although the South was "obsessed with honor" in the mid-18th century, there was relatively little homicide. Barring under-reported crime against some groups, low homicide may simply have been gentlemanly self-restraint at a time when social order was stable, a trend that reverses in the 19th century and later. [a]

  9. Murder of Heshu Yones - Wikipedia

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    Murder in the name of honour will be punished by the severest penalties available in law."' [19] Baker set up a specialist unit and taskforce to investigate honour-related crime ; along with conducting research and flagging up frontline training requirements, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] reviews were conducted on murder files from 1993 to 2003 in an effort to ...