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Honour-Based Violence and Forced Marriages: Community and Restorative Practices in Europe

By Clara Rigoni
Routledge August 2022

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ISBN-13
9780367505974
Publisher
Routledge
Publication
August 2022
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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In the last 20 years, the related phenomena of honour-based violence and forced marriages have received increasing attention at the international and European level. Punitive responses towards this type of violence have been adopted, including ad hoc criminalisation and legislation containing direct references to the concepts of honour, culture and tradition. However, criminal law-based responses present several shortcomings and have often disregarded the specific needs that victims of such crimes might encounter. This book examines the possibility of using alternative programmes to address cases of honour-based violence and forced marriages. After reviewing previous existing literature, it presents new empirical data. Introducing a case-study from the United Kingdom, the book recalls the debate on Sharia Councils and the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal but examines instead other community-based, secular, programmes. By comparison, a study from Norway on the work of the National Mediation Agency and the so-called Cross-Cultural Transformative Mediation model is investigated as part of a larger multi-agency approach. Ultimately, in an attempt to reconcile pluralism and the rule of law, the book proposes effective ways to tackle honour crimes based on cooperation and individualisation of the proceedings, and capable of improving women’s access to justice and reducing secondary victimisation.

The book will be essential reading for researchers and academics in Law, Criminology, Sociology, and Anthropology and for policy-makers and practitioners working with honour-based violence cases.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Part I
1. Introduction
2. Honour-Based Violence and Forced Marriages
3. The Accommodation of Normative Plurality within European Legal Systems
4. The Accommodation of Normative Plurality through Extra-Legal Instruments: Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanisms and Restorative Justice
Part II
5. Methodology
6. The United Kingdom
7. Norway
8. Comparative Overview of the Findings
9. Discussion of the Findings and Conclusions

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