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A July 2008 Turkish study by a team from Dicle University on honor killings in the Southeastern Anatolia Region, the predominantly Kurdish area of Turkey, has so far shown that little if any social stigma is attached to honor killing. It also comments that the practice is not related to a feudal societal structure, "there are also perpetrators ...
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.
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 ...
Category: Honor killing. ... Honor killings by region; M. Memini; N. Namus This page was last edited on 19 October 2024, at 02:21 (UTC). Text is available under ...
The so-called honour killing of 18-year-old Saman Abbas, who went missing in April 2021, shocked Italy. ... The killing last month of a university student and the arrest of her ex-boyfriend for ...
Pela Atroshi (12 October 1979 – 24 June 1999) was a 19-year-old Kurdish woman from Farsta, Sweden.She was murdered in an honor killing by family members after being taken from Sweden to Duhok.
Abby Williams and Libby German were found murdered in 2017 near Monon High Bridge in Delphi, Indiana. After years of uncertainty, local man Richard Allen has been found guilty and sentenced to 130 ...
Two parents allegedly tried to choke their 17-year-old daughter outside her high school in an attempted “honor killing” for refusing an arranged marriage with an older man, according to police.