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« on: August 03, 2007, 12:25:24 am »

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Similar practices have been known since ancient Roman times, when the pater familias, or senior male within a household, retained the right to kill an unmarried but sexually active daughter or an adulterous wife. Europe has been familiar with the practice since ancient empires under Christian law in which crimes such as adultery, were punished often with stoning. Jewish law punishes certain sexual misconduct, for both men and women, with court- (Sanhedrin) approved capital punishment. (The Sanhedrin's requirements for burden of proof, however, are so strict that this punishment was never meted out, and certainly never sanctioned outside of the court.) Such practices have long since ceased to be endemic in North America, although immigrants from North Africa and the Middle East have brought the practice with them in recent decades.

Honor killings, generally considered premeditated, are typically held to be distinct from Crimes of passion, which occur, not uncommonly, in European and Western societies and throughout the world. Crimes of passion often have special status under the law. For instance, until 1975, the French Penal Code commuted the sentence of a husband who killed his wife after finding her in the act of committing adultery [3]; this law passed into the legal frameworks of the many nations who based their modern legal codes on the Napoleonic Code. However, crimes of passion are limited in scope and are different from premeditated crimes against an adulterous spouse.

Honor killings are sometimes performed even against a woman who is raped, for her **** supposedly dishonors the family. A raped single woman will also garner no bride price if she marries, and thus she will be "worthless" to the family.


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As of 2004, honor killings have occurred in numerous countries, including: Albania, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, Egypt, Germany, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy[4], Jordan, Morocco, Pakistan, Palestine, Sweden, Turkey, Uganda, the United Kingdom and the United States. In Europe, honor killings have been reported within the Muslim and Sikh communities. Many cases of honor killing have been reported in Pakistan, where it is known as KaroKari. In December 2005, Nazir Afzal, director of Britain's Crown Prosecution Service in west London—an area with a large number of South Asian residents—stated that the United Kingdom has seen "at least a dozen honor killings" between 2004 and 2005 [5]. Afzal notes that

I've certainly seen more cases of honor crime since July 7...When communities perceive themselves to be under threat they tend to turn in on themselves, regardless of whether that perception has any basis in fact.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_killing
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