Essays about: "honour crime"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words honour crime.

1. 1. Left without protection : A study on how honour-related violence and oppression is being problematised in Swedish public policy

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för Asien- och Mellanösternstudier (IAM)

   Author : Margrét Gudmundsdottir; [2022]
   Keywords : Honour; honour-violence; oppression; policy documents; problem representation; intersectionality; women; Middle East and North Africa; isolation; subordination.;

   Abstract : In June 2022, a new law will be implemented in the Swedish legal system, making honour- violence a certain crime. Before the new law has been implemented, investigations have been made by government officials trying to present how honour-related violence and oppression is a problem in the Swedish society. READ MORE

3. 2. Honour killings: a thematic analysis within European newspapers

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Religionsvetenskap

   Author : Rita Coelho; [2017]
   Keywords : honour; honour crime; honour killings; patriarchal culture; culture; newspapers; Europe; Portugal; Spain; United Kingdom; femicide.;

   Abstract : Honour killings are considered by the perpetrators the only path to maintain theirs and their family honour, preventing other's to follow behaviours that move away from traditional patriarchal values. With the aim of exploring how honour killings are characterised, a qualitative study within three European newspapers, in three different languages, was conducted. READ MORE

4. 3. Social Banditry, Myth and Historical Reality : Conceptualising Contemporary Albanian Organised Crime Against the Hajduks

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Europastudier

   Author : Oskar Gustafson; [2017]
   Keywords : European Studies; Albania; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis will investigate how Erik Hobsbawm’s theory of ‘social banditry’ can be applied to a contemporary setting to explain the strength and workings of ethnic Albanian organised crime groups. The paper will delve into a pre-existing debate surrounding the effectiveness of this theoretical lens as a method to account for the global phenomenon of banditry (particularly in the feudalist age). READ MORE

5. 4. Oppressed Pride - Exploring the professionals recognition towards LGBTQ persons vulnerabilities under collective patriarchal violence and oppression

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för socialt arbete

   Author : Khalid Rashid; [2013-06-25]
   Keywords : HRVO; LGBTQ; honour killing; recognition; patriarchy;

   Abstract : Honour related violence and oppression is a relatively new phenomenon in Sweden that received political and medial attention in the 1990's. A lot of research has been made since then in order to understand the phenomenon and to improve the interventions against it. READ MORE

6. 5. Crimes of Honour – Females' Right for Support in the Multicultural Society

   University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Linda Edvardsson; [2008]
   Keywords : Honour; Crimes of Honour; Honour Related Violence; Human rights;

   Abstract : This research demonstrate how crimes of honour functions and consequently could lay the path in which females do need help and support in order to escape from (or manage) their environment of oppression. Thus, females all over the world are violated in the name of honour and every year around 5,000 women and girls are murdered in the name of honour by her relatives. READ MORE