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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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    Several honor killings have been documented in the United States. As of 2012, there is no central agency that collects data across all jurisdictions in regards to honor violence in the United States. [citation needed] There is reluctance among some organizations to label events as honor killings to avoid stigmatizing Muslim and Arab cultures. [1]

  5. From a jumble of statistics, a dramatic rise in hate and ...

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    State and federal bias and hate crime statistics frequently contradict each other. But the confusion doesn't obscure the dramatic rise of both in NJ.

  6. 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]

  7. Honour killing in Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    Honour killing is an act of murder, in which a person is murdered for his or her perceived immoral behaviour. Such "immoral behaviour" may take the form of alleged marital infidelity, refusal to submit to an arranged marriage, demanding a divorce, perceived flirtatious behaviour and being raped.

  8. Nearly half a century after Honolulu teen’s killing, modern ...

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    Susie Chun Oakland was a sophomore when she arrived at McKinley High School in Honolulu – a crime scene – that Monday morning nearly a half century ago.

  9. Honor-related violence in Sweden - Wikipedia

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    In 2019, the Swedish Police Authority started to specifically track honor-related crimes, and by November 2021, 4500 suspected honor-related crimes had been reported. Honor related violence exists in every culture, but is more common in cultures emanating from North Africa via the Middle East to Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent. Honor ...