Honour based violence

• Details
• Tagged entities

Properties

Alt label

• Honour killings

SES ID

• 91545
• 439024

Notation

• 91545

In scheme

• Subject

Broader

• Crimes against the person

Narrower

• Breast ironing
• Female genital mutilation

Related

• Domestic abuse
• Forced marriage
• Homicide

Definition

• ACPO definition: ‘Honour based violence’ is a crime or incident, which has or may have been committed to protect or defend the honour of the family and/or community.

History note

• Additional UF Honour killings added 20/07/2017. EM.