Policing UK Honour-Based Abuse Crime

• Main Author: Aplin, Rachael (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Police.; Victimology.; Violence.; Crime.; Social work.; Sociology.; Policing.; Violence and Crime.; Social Work.; Gender Studies.

This book examines the different forms that honour-based abuse crimes take, and analyses the discretionary police practices employed when responding to these incidents. Honour-based abuse is an incident or crime involving violence, threats of violence, intimidation, coercion or abuse committed in or...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introducing Honour-Based Abuse
• 2. Methodology
• 3. Distinguishing Truth From Lies: Victims Are Mad, Bad or Consenting
• 4. The Grey Figure of Crime: If It Isn't Crimed, It Hasn't Happened
• 5. Deconstructing Crime Through Language
• 6. Female Perpetration of Honour-Based Abuse
• 7. HBA Child Protection and Partnership Working
• 8. Conclusions.