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Honour-based crime up 62%

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Papyrophile · 10/04/2024 21:02

According to the Family Law Centre, honour-based crime in the UK went up 62% from 2020-2022. For explanation, honour-based crime and abuse mostly affects women from SE Asian or Middle Eastern backgrounds where the cultural traditions are very strongly patriarchal, arranged marriages are routine and women are regarded as less important/valuable than men.

As a feminist, this is extraordinarily distasteful to me but I am not affected at all by it. How do other people see the situation?

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EmmaEmerald · 10/04/2024 22:34

TooBigForMyBoots · 10/04/2024 22:21

Domestic violence is never Honour based. I hate that term.

This.

roarrfeckingroar · 10/04/2024 22:33

Surely because those populations are growing as a % in the UK, so overall the crimes rose

Candleabra · 10/04/2024 22:30

I’ve been listening to a podcast on bbc sounds called Assume Nothing (first series). Worth a listen, though horrifying.
A lot about how society justifies and excuses violence towards women in a way that would never happen if the sexes were reversed.

Candleabra · 10/04/2024 22:28

I wish they’d stop calling it honour crime.
It’s disgraceful how violence towards and murder of women is minimised. Even the language implies it’s deserved and not the fault of the men who (almost always) do it.

NerdWhoEatsMedlar · 10/04/2024 22:21

Link?

TooBigForMyBoots · 10/04/2024 22:21

Domestic violence is never Honour based. I hate that term.

Ponderingwindow · 10/04/2024 22:18

I think as long as hate crime laws exist, that these types of crimes that are specifically perpetrated against women should be included amongst them.

TextureSeeker · 10/04/2024 22:16

Is it that it is has risen by 62% or that the number of women that feel able to report it has gone up? You haven't attached any kind of link so I don't know?

AmaryllisChorus · 10/04/2024 22:16

No such thing as 'honour based' crime. Violence against women is violence against women. Murder is murder. No honour in either of those. These are not honourable men, They are scum.

Whitewatergrafting · 10/04/2024 22:15

Not surprising at all.
Just another way that men find a way to do shit things to women.

HelloMiss · 10/04/2024 22:13

I see the aftermath of it all

Stats don't surprise me at all on this