The book offers an in-depth analysis of Honour based crimes around the globe. Few books are available on this topic and a dire need is felt to have an academic discussion so as to make this crime visible in the eyes of public. The book reflects the ideology behind Honour Killing as well as the role of Patriarchal societies in enhancing the crime. It further elucidates the concept of Gender Equality in totality and the views of various thinkers on it. The book covers socio-culture based factors in addition to demystifying the evolution of global legal framework vis-à-vis honour killing. The book will further understand the criminology behind this crime and the complexity of family dynamics that facilitates it. The role of class conflicts and immigrants in committing this crime have been substantially highlighted in the book.
Honour Killing is mainly practised in South Asian, Middle East and Arab countries but it has global ramifications as the migrants from these countries to Western European countries, North America and elsewhere practised Honour Killing in the settled countries. The manuscript, starting with the definition of Honour Killing, deals with the things about how honour killings and honour related crimes are downgrading the women dignity and diminishing the achievements of feminist movements and how a woman is still unprotected even after so many laws, in addition to, highlighting the after satisfaction of saving that honour is worth or not! The book will showcase honour killing as socio-psychological problem engrossed in the society and focus on other discerning issues like how transgender people face abuse which eventually leads to honour related crimes. The book will do the comparative study of the laws of various countries vis-à-vis honour killing and will showcase the myth about consanguinity of caste and religious prejudices with honour killing.
The reader will acknowledge that Honour Killing as a serious problem persist, both in law and practice. To deter new and recurrent patterns of honour killings, punishments for both men and women who perpetrate honour killings must be imposed with greater consistency, severity and celerity. The most common complications in achieving these goals stem from the facts that the justice system is fraught with bias, police are unresponsive and ineffective, and some judges appear to consider honour killings insufficiently serious to merit undertaking the complex process of extraditing offenders.
The reader will further appreciate that although a legal framework has been established to protect women from violence, the ineffectiveness of specific laws and the lack of specialist support agencies mean that women from all communities remain at risk. Although the legal system can provide some protection to women, there must be an acknowledgment of the limits of the law. Only a small proportion of perpetrators of honour killings come before the courts, and only a tiny proportion of all these cases come to trial. Therefore, a system of parallel justice is essential which should be based in the communities where the offences occur. This approach would offer a constructive way forward, avoiding a sole reliance on the formal, institutional power of the legal system.
Reader’s thought will be attracted towards the design of preventative strategies, to the potential for informal, proactive community responses to honour killings. A better understanding of the ways in which honour-based communities’ interface with institutions would allow support agencies to confront the perpetrators more effectively and to support and protect the victims. In this way, the legal system can be seen as just one aspect of a more comprehensive social response.
The reader will be forced to think that developing a coherent national and international response to the problem of honour killing is urgently needed, especially amid rising international attention to the issue. This response, however, needs to go beyond data collection and monitoring, and the development of tools for risk assessment. It also needs to involve measures and procedures that foreground resource allocation, and which are defined by a duty to provide safety and justice for vulnerable women.
As a reference book in the libraries of various universities across the globe, book stalls and stores, online through publisher’s website, amazon, flipkart, Google Inc. etc and mouth publicity. The regional scope of the book covers North America, Western Europe, Russia, Middle East, Turkey, Iran and South Asia. The country scope is not restricted to USA, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh etc. As academic publishing houses have a symbiotic relationship with the educational system, the monetary aspect of the book will be in millions (USD).
Reason: It is widely practised in the above area by the indigenous people or immigrants.